Thursday, February 26, 2015
Begin with this article the publication of a series of insights on the NIS DIRECTIVE, which is not closely linked to the GDPR, but has many elements in common and therefore we hope it will interest our readers.
The 1148 European Directive of the 6 July 2016 - Network and Information Security - NIS - deals with defining measures for a common high level of security of networks and information systems in the Union.
It establishes - art. 1 - measures to achieve a high common level of network security and information systems in the Union so as to improve the functioning of the internal market. To that end:
The 5 article requires that within the 9 November 2018, and every two years thereafter, the Member States have identified, for each sector and sub-sector referred to in the relevant annex, the operators of essential services with a seat in their territory .
The criteria for identifying the operators of essential services are as follows:
The areas of competence referred to in the Directive are listed below:
ESSENTIAL SERVICE OPERATORS - OSE
Energy (electricity, oil and gas)
Transports (plane, rail, waterways, road)
Banking sector (credit institutions)
Financial markets
Healthcare sector (Health institutions, including hospitals and private clinics)
Drinking water (supply and distribution)
Digital infrastructures (IXP operators - Internet exchange point, DNS service provider - domain name systems, TLD top-level domain name registries)
DIGITAL SERVICE SUPPLIERS - FSD
Online market
Search engine online
Cloud services (cloud computing).
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