EU close to passing first-ever uniform cyber security rules

Want to compel web giants to share their data breaches.

The European Union is one step closer to introducing uniform cyber security rules, which would require all member states to implement mandatory data breach notifications and establish their own cyber attack response teams.

The EU currently has no common approach to cyber security or incident reporting.

However it has now announced that a new set of rules, known as the network and information systems (NIS) directive, has passed a major final hurdle by winning the endorsement of the vast majority of members of its internal market committee. For the full article click here 

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