NIS2 is a transformative directive reshaping how organizations across Europe and the globe approach cybersecurity, supply chain management, and operational resilience. A lot has been written about compliance strategies, but what does NIS2 mean in practice? We’ve asked the Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation (ILR), Luxembourg’s national regulatory authority responsible for overseeing the implementation and enforcement of NIS2 in the country.

While most security teams now have systematic processes in place for identifying vulnerabilities and responding to targeted threats, large-scale security incidents that affect many organizations globally are now an increasingly common occurrence. The Crowdstrike outage in July, while not specifically a security incident, demonstrated how targeted breaches or failures in our security infrastructure can have a ripple effect across entire industries and disrupt critical aspects of everyday life.

As a modern CTO, it should probably come as no big surprise that I’m an optimist on the innovative prospects of artificial intelligence (AI). But I’ve been in this career for a long time, and that optimism is tempered with experience. I’ve seen enough emerging technology patterns to know that it always takes a lot more time and resources than people think to evolve innovative technologies beyond their final barriers.

As we discussed in the first article in this series, there are many Internet-exposed control systems, but they are very different from traditional IT systems and require a different security approach. With these systems being so critical and controlling processes that can potentially lead to loss of life if they fail, what is being done to tackle this issue? In this article I’ll dive into this and more, looking at.