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EU Council strengthens cybersecurity with updated legislation

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The new NIS2 directive aims to improve resilience and incident response capacities in the EU.

We reported earlier that the European Parliament had voted to adopt a modernised cybersecurity framework, the NIS2 Directive, and that it will replace the current Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive.

With the updated directive, the Council aims to set a higher common level of cybersecurity across the Union,