EU to impose compulsory cyber defence rules | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

The European Commission is planning to force energy, transport and financial
companies to invest more in their cyber security and to report on breaches suffered, two EU officials said.

 

“The European Commission will propose by the end of the third quarter of 2012 a new obligation for security breach notifications for the energy, transport, banking and financial sectors,” said an official working at the Commission's digital agenda department.

 

The official said that companies have an interest in beefing up their protection against cyber attacks, but that they were not doing enough to defend their infrastructure.

 

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