Most EU member states are set to miss an implementation deadline falling today (17 October) to implement rules to protect critical entities against cyber-attacks and organisations are also concerned about fragmentation of such rules.
Euronews reported last week that the European Commission had so far only received confirmations from Belgium and Croatia on transposition of the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS 2). A spokesperson for the Commission said on 16 October that as of this week Italy and Lithuania had also partially implemented rules.
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Source: Euronews
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