The changing geopolitical climate, sophisticated nation state adversaries, and a persisting wave of ransomware attacks by cyber-crime groups have put cybersecurity is front and center on the agenda, for the EU, for national governments, and for the industry. In response, the EU Member States have adopted a number of EU wide policies, including the NIS2 Directive, DORA, and the CRA. The goal of the NIS2 Directive is to boost the level of resilience across the Union, covering a wide range of critical sectors. The CRA addresses the cybersecurity of products with digital elements on the EU market. However, as a result, the digital policy landscape has become quite complex: in the last seven years, the European Union has adopted more than 20 new digital regulations, covering a wide range of different topics from resilience of critical sectors, to personal data protection, to disinformation, online terrorism, AI bias, etc. For companies this complexity poses significant governance and compliance challenges:
Which regulations are relevant to my organization?
What requirements must we meet? Are they the same when I do business in another country?
How do these regulations impact my business and what is our liability?
The Online Trust Coalition (OTC), initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, is a collaboration between public and private entities. Its goal is to develop and define methods that streamline compliance and enhance the effectiveness of regulations. OTC participants have crafted a detailed, practical, and integrated strategy that assists organizations and their leaders in establishing robust governance and demonstrating compliance with the extensive array of EU digital legislation.
In this session we discuss the EU digital compliance challenge, both from the European Union perspective, the industry perspective, and we will outline a strategy for addressing the digital policy compliance challenge.
