A free, curated directory of the most authoritative European and transatlantic sources for defence, security and cyber: EU agencies, NATO centres of excellence, leading think tanks, technical threat databases, and the key legal frameworks shaping Europe's strategic future. Maintained by Strategic Europe — open-source, non-partisan, updated as the field evolves.
The bodies that set and run Europe's defence, security and cyber policy.
The EU's cyber agency. Its annual Threat Landscape is the reference assessment for European cyber risk.
enisa.europa.euSupports EU capability development and publishes the authoritative Defence Data on member-state spending and forces.
eda.europa.euThe EU's diplomatic service and home of the Strategic Compass and East StratCom Task Force.
eeas.europa.euEuropean Commission directorate for the defence industry, the European Defence Fund and EU space programmes.
ec.europa.euThe cybersecurity service for EU institutions, bodies and agencies; publishes threat advisories.
cert.europa.euThe EU's in-house think tank on foreign, security and defence policy.
iss.europa.euEurope's law-enforcement hub against cybercrime; home of the IOCTA threat assessment.
europol.europa.euThe subcommittee on Security and Defence; hearings, studies and oversight.
europarl.europa.euThe Alliance and its centres of excellence — the backbone of European collective defence.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization — official news, statements and financial & defence-expenditure data.
nato.intThe Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence — home of the Tallinn Manual and the Locked Shields exercise.
ccdcoe.orgStrategic Communications Centre of Excellence — leading research on disinformation and influence operations.
stratcomcoe.orgNATO's warfare-development command — concepts, innovation and the future of allied capabilities.
act.nato.intThe Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic — dual-use deep-tech startups across the Alliance.
diana.nato.intThe operational databases and frameworks used by defenders worldwide.
The global knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).
attack.mitre.orgThe authoritative machine-readable feed of CVE vulnerabilities and severity scoring.
nvd.nist.govThe catalogue of vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild — a defender's priority list.
cisa.govThe global forum of incident response and security teams; maintainer of the CVSS scoring standard.
first.orgThe open-source threat-intelligence sharing platform widely used across European CERTs.
misp-project.orgNon-profit internet-scale threat monitoring and free daily reports to national CERTs.
shadowserver.orgTracking and countering information manipulation against Europe.
The EU's flagship project against disinformation — a searchable database of 18,000+ catalogued cases.
euvsdisinfo.euAn independent NGO investigating sophisticated disinformation operations targeting the EU.
disinfo.euThe European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats — EU/NATO joint body.
hybridcoe.fiThe Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab — open-source investigations of influence ops.
dfrlab.orgThe leading European and transatlantic institutes shaping defence debate.
The Royal United Services Institute — the world's oldest defence and security think tank.
rusi.orgThe Stockholm International Peace Research Institute — the gold standard on military expenditure and arms transfers.
sipri.orgStrategic Europe analysis on the continent's role in a changing world order.
carnegieendowment.orgEuropean economics think tank with leading work on defence-economic and industrial policy.
bruegel.orgThe Royal Institute for International Relations (Brussels) — EU security & defence.
egmontinstitute.beThe Netherlands Institute of International Relations — security and conflict research.
clingendael.orgDatasets and OSINT references underpinning rigorous analysis.
Military expenditure, arms transfers and arms-industry datasets — free and open-source-based.
sipri.orgThe most comparable dataset on EU member-state defence spending and capabilities.
eda.europa.euThe pioneering open-source investigation collective, based in the Netherlands.
bellingcat.comThe official portal for European open data, including security-relevant datasets.
data.europa.euThe instruments that define Europe's defence and cyber obligations.
The EU's flagship security & defence strategy to 2030 — threat analysis and capability goals.
eeas.europa.euThe EU's cybersecurity baseline for essential and important entities across critical sectors.
ec.europa.euThe Digital Operational Resilience Act — cyber resilience rules for the EU financial sector.
eur-lex.europa.euEU security requirements for products with digital elements across their lifecycle.
ec.europa.euWhere European companies and startups find money for defence & dual-use tech.
€8bn (2021–27) co-funding collaborative defence R&D and capability across the EU.
ec.europa.euThe EU Defence Innovation Scheme — hackathons, matchmaking and equity for defence startups.
eudis.europa.euThe EIC Accelerator funds deep-tech and dual-use SMEs with grants and equity.
eic.ec.europa.euThe first multi-sovereign venture fund — €1bn for deep-tech across 24 allied nations.
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