On 9 July 2026, the European Commission referred Ireland to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to transpose NIS2. Spain, France, and the Netherlands were referred alongside it. This isn’t a warning letter. It’s the Commission asking…
Microsoft handed Dutch civil servants’ names to the U.S. House of Representatives. No court order. No judicial review on European soil. Just a statute that overrides every contractual assurance you’ve ever been sold. Last month, Vrij Nederland broke a story…
Ireland has had a rough few years as a target. The HSE attack in 2021 cost an estimated €600 million to recover from, took four months to fully remediate, and became one of the most referenced ransomware case studies in…
Data Sovereignty After NIS2 and DORA: What Backup Teams Need to Know For years, backup strategy was primarily driven by cost, recovery speed, and storage efficiency. Today, that’s no longer enough. Across Europe, regulations like the EU’s NIS2 Directive and…