European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The European Union approved its first rules on cybersecurity, forcing businesses to strengthen defenses and companies such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to report attacks. The European Parliament endorsed legislation that will impose security and reporting obligations on service operators in industries such as banking, energy, transport and health and on digital operators like search engines and online marketplaces. The law, voted through on Wednesday in Strasbourg, France, also requires EU national governments to cooperate among themselves in the field of network security. The rules "will help prevent cyberattacks on Europe's important interconnected infrastructures," said Andreas Schwab, a German member of the 28-nation EU Parliament who steered the measures through the assembly. EU governments have already supported the legislation. The EU Parliament also noted that network-securitiy incidents resulting from human error, technical difficulties, technical failures or cyberattacks cause annual losses of upwards of $377 billion (340 billion euros).

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Finally.

[AlphaBro]

This has been a long time coming. Companies should be held accountable for their negligence.

Re:Finally.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah right. I see companies intentionally cutting corners on every point trying to save money "getting things done". If they can get away with it, they will. The industrial sector is the worst. Please go visit your local urgent care facility and see how many people have lost fingers on a daily basis because some boss wants to "get things done" while bypassing safeties on machines.