The November Paris terrorist attacks are giving increased urgency to ongoing reforms of Europol, already given impetus by other implemented or foiled terrorist attacks in the EU in 2015. Terrorists are exploiting perennial gaps and dysfunctions in technical cooperation and information-sharing between EU states, as well as the security vulnerability represented by the Schengen free-travel area.
The new Europol regulation is due for full implementation only by April 2017, by when the jihadist threat will have developed.
Possible new standardisations across data collection, aggregation and usage should become standards in the corporate security sector.
There will be business opportunities in providing warnings based on online activities, data aggregation and smart sensors.
