Firms supplying essential services, e.g. for energy, transport, banking and health, or digital ones, such as search engines and cloud services, will have to improve their ability to withstand cyberattacks under the first EU-wide rules on cybersecurity.
Setting common cybersecurity standards and stepping up cooperation among EU countries will help prevent attacks on EU countries’ interconnected infrastructure. European Parliament's rapporteur Andreas Schwab said that cybersecurity incidents very often have a cross-border element and therefore concern more than one EU member state.