This white paper explains how the EU’s NIS2 Directive (in force since 2023) updates the original 2016 NIS rules to address the expanding cyber threat landscape driven by digitization and interconnected services, widening scope to more sectors and introducing a size threshold so most medium and large organizations in covered industries fall in scope. NIS2 strengthens governance and accountability, mandates a risk-management approach with a baseline set of security controls (including incident handling, supply chain security, vulnerability disclosure, and encryption), and introduces staged incident reporting timelines: an early warning within 24 hours, a notification within 72 hours, and a final report within one month. The paper maps these requirements to Bitdefender capabilities such as ri

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