#22 - The NIS2 Directive

In Case of Emergency

- How does the New Directive Help Resilience of Critical Infrastructure?

Guest Speaker - Alessandro Lazari, Senior Key Accountant Manager, F24 AG

Alessandro has worked as a specialist on critical infrastructure protection, resilience and cyber security since 2004. He was a scientific officer at the European Commission Joint research Center, where he worked on a policy and an initiative to support the European program for critical infrastructure protection (EPCIP). Alessandro is also a fellow in the legal informatics at the school of law, at the University of Lecce, and he is also a lecturer on courses for protecting critical infrastructure at the NATO Center of Excellence. Last but not least, Alesaandro is also the co-founder for interdisciplinary research on infrastructure security and resilience at the University of Salento, Italy.

03:00 - What does the directive on security and network information systems, better known as the NIS directive, aim to achieve?

5:00 - What are the implications of NIS1 vs. NIS2, and more specifically what does it mean for the member states?

6:25 - What are the immediate next steps in closing down NIS1 and moving to NIS2?

8:22 - How far does this sort of trickle down from essential government to local government and potential external third parties?

10:04 - How do you think these new directives are going to facilitate crisis management and resilience?

13:11 - What have you learned by working in your profession that you may have adopted as a standard working practice either in your personal life or perhaps your professional life?