Beyond the NIS Directive with its focus on incident reporting and threat information sharing, there are a number of further activities at EU level to tackle the rising number of cybersecurity incidents. On 23 June 2021, the European Commission proposed a Joint Cyber Unit to bring together resources and expertise available to the EU and … Continued
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) plays an important role in the European cybersecurity ecosystem. The Agency works with organisations and businesses to strengthen trust in the digital economy, boost the resilience of the EU’s infrastructure, and keep EU citizens digitally safe. Under the NIS Directive, ENISA is tasked with assisting the Member States … Continued
Our interdisciplinary project EnCaViBS inter alia evaluates the implementation of the NIS Directive in the EU Member States. One of our focus points also in terms of the NIS 2.0 Proposal is the assessment of the different cooperation mechanisms introduced by the NIS Directive. In that regard we asked the single points of contact (SPOCs), … Continued
Responding effectively to the the challenges of NIS security requires inter alia the exchange of information on risks and incidents. Accordingly, the NIS Directive requires OESs and DSPs to report incidents with a significant/substantial impact. A key deliverable of the NIS Directive is also the creation of a computer security incident response teams network (‘CSIRTs … Continued
Trilogue interinstitutional negotiations on a NIS 2.0 Directive started on 13 January 2022 with a political agreement reached as early as 13 May 2022. In a meeting on 20 July 2022, the Council Presidency has now presented its revised Presidency compromise text for a NIS 2.0 Directive to the Permanent Representatives Committee seeking authorisation to request … Continued
Sandra participated on behalf of the EnCaViBS team at this year’s Gikii conference at the University of Reykjavik in Iceland. Gikii, which exists since 2006, is THE original geek law conference and explores the interface between law and popular culture. The conference call invited contributions that had a link with sci-fi, fantasy, robots, AI, comic … Continued