ANALYSIS: What to Know About the EU’s New Cybersecurity Rules

Now that the deadline has passed for European Union member states to incorporate the new Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) into their own laws, US-based companies should know how to comply with this new directive, so that they don’t court trouble in this newest wave of EU-based tech governance.

The NIS2 is the latest European cybersecurity legislation serving to repeal the previous first EU-wide cybersecurity legislation, NIS. This new legislation greatly expanded the scope and requirements of the previous framework. EU member states had until Oct. 17 to transpose NIS2’s requirements into their national laws, with the option to ...