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Bundestag Approves German NIS2 Law, Adds New Controls

🔒 The Bundestag approved the federal government's draft law to implement the NIS2 Directive on 13 November 2025, bringing new cybersecurity obligations for an estimated 29,850 companies and federal authorities. Affected organizations must strengthen risk analyses, incident response, backups and encryption, and report incidents to the BSI within 24/72/30 hours/days. The law expands BSI supervisory powers and allows bans on "critical components" coordinated by the Interior Ministry, drawing criticism from industry groups.

UK introduces Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to Parliament

🔒 The UK government today introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, proposing a major overhaul of the NIS Regulations to align with updated EU standards. The draft would regulate managed service providers, expand scope to data centres and smart-appliance electricity flows, and mandate supply-chain risk management and NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework-based controls. Incident reporting windows would tighten to an initial 24 hours and full report within 72 hours, while the ICO and regulators gain stronger enforcement and fee powers.

Securing Critical Infrastructure: Europe’s Risk-Based Rules

🔒 In this Deputy CISO post, Freddy Dezeure of Microsoft explains how recent EU laws are reshaping cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. He argues that NIS2 and DORA broaden the CISO role across IT, OT, IoT, AI, and supply chains and push for stronger board-level accountability. The piece emphasizes a risk-based, prioritized approach—focusing on a few high-impact controls such as phishing-resistant multifactor authentication, comprehensive asset inventory, timely patching, and resilience testing.

ENISA to Run €36m EU Cybersecurity Incident Reserve

🛡️ ENISA has been allocated €36m to operate the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, a virtual pool of pre‑vetted private incident response providers established under the EU Cyber Solidarity Act. The funding, delivered through the Digital Europe Programme over three years, will be used to procure responders and to evaluate and fulfil support requests from member states, CSIRTs or CERT‑EU. Unused pre‑committed services can be repurposed for prevention and preparedness. ENISA will also lead a European certification scheme for managed security services, initially focusing on incident response.