Companies which supply essential services – such as energy, transport, banking, health or digital services such as cloud services and search engines – will be required to achieve minimum standards of cyber-security under new EU-wide rules adopted by the EU Parliament today.
The EU network and information security (NIS) directive sets common cyber-security standards and aims to step up cooperation among EU countries and service providers. According to its supporters, it will help prevent attacks on EU countries’ interconnected infrastructure.
“Cyber-security incidents very often have a cross-border element and therefore concern more than one EU member state. Fragmentary cyber-security protection makes us all vulnerable and poses a big security risk for Europe as a whole,” said Parliament’s rapporteur Andreas Schwab, MEP for Germany. “This directive will establish a common level of network and information security and enhance cooperation among EU member states, which will help prevent cyberattacks on Europe’s important interconnected infrastructures in the future.” For the full article click here
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