Cyber Resilience Act, Data Act, AI Act & Co: Which new requirements are relevant for IoT companies, what is behind the individual laws – and why it pays to understand regulatory objectives. The eco Competence Group IoT is here to guide you through the regulatory jungle. From data protection, data law and cybersecurity...

Following the withdrawal of US funding, the CVE project faces shutdown – a serious blow to the global cybersecurity infrastructure. Klaus Landefeld, Member of the eco Board, warns of the consequences and calls for a swift, coordinated solution.

Regulatory requirements increasingly affect non-regulated third-party providers De facto NIS2 compliance required even before coming into force Be prepared becomes a competitive factor Between 14 and 28 April 2025, financial institutions in the EU must have registered their IT service providers with the Federal...

How can the technical requirements of the NIS2 regulation be implemented? This question will be the focus of discussion among eco members at the next regular meeting of the KRITIS Competence Group – scheduled on 13 February 2025 at the DE-CIX Meeting Center in Frankfurt. Ulrich Plate, Head of the KRITIS CG, will present the status of ENISA’s “Implementing Guide” at this event. You can now gain insights from our brief interview with him.

Natural disasters, accidents, or sabotage – while our digital infrastructures are secure, they are not invulnerable. Gerald Miersch of PFALZKOM explains how data centres achieve the highest levels of resilience and highlights the vital role of georedundancy.

In this interview, Isa explains how the successful (re)certification of its data centres strengthens customer confidence in the quality of its services.

Today was supposed to be the day. The NIS2 Directive, which has been in force since January 2023, was to be implemented into national law by all EU Member States by 17 October 2024. However, it has been clear for some time that Germany will not meet this deadline. And now?

Number of organisations regulated by NIS2 and KRITIS umbrella expands to over 30,000. eco Association provides 9 tips to increase the cyber resilience of industrial control systems.

eco survey reveals: One-third of the surveyed IT decision-makers have not yet taken any measures to fulfil the increased security requirements of NIS2.

Satellites naturally count as critical infrastructure – however, only a small part of their ground stations are regulated by law as “critical infrastructures” (known as "KRITIS "in Germany). The eco met the DLR event in April, which shed light on the future legal implications of the NIS2 and the German KRITIS Umbrella Act and provided concrete examples of how to best prepare for attacks.