The speech will present the security strategy of the European Commission in the framework of the EU security policy as outlined by the European Council in 2004. After introducing the European Commission and its role in the EU institutional framework, the presentation will describe the EC's IT organisation and governance and will highlight the role of security in the "Roadmap towards an Integrated eCommission" the internal eGoverment initiative of the EC launched in the context of the i2010 initiative. The presentation will outline the principles inspiring the security policy , "a secure Europe in a better world", and will describe the EC strategy for Network and Information Security explaining the dimensions of the problem, from technical to social and ethical. Then the Research Security Policy will be introduced describing all the efforts and preparatory actions that had lead to the allocation of 1.4 M€ for security research in FP 7. It will also describe the initiatives regarding Safer Internet and those in the area of Justice, Freedom and Security. Finally, the EC internal security policy will be outlined and the implementation efforts regarding the policy will be presented including the description of the peripheral security infrastructure, security of IT configurations and Information Systems as well as the measures put in place to fight viruses and spam