Improving Cybersecurity in the European Union: The Network and Information Security Directive

Welcoming the agreement in December 2015 on the draft text of the first EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity, the European Commission Vice President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, said: "If we want people and businesses to use and make the most of connected digital services, they need to trust them to be secure in the case of attack or failure. The Internet knows no border--a problem in one country can have a knock-on effect in the rest of Europe. This is why we need EU-wide cybersecurity solutions.

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