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Aug 08

NotBeingPetya: UK critical infrastructure firms face huge fines for lax security

Makes you WannaCr… we mean WannaPatch

The UK government has announced that businesses providing essential services like energy and transport could be fined as much as £17m of 4 per cent of global turnover for failing to have effective cyber security measures in place.

The proposals from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport satisfy requirements under the EU Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, which comes into effect next May. Critical infrastructure firms will also be required to show they have a strategy to cover power failures and environmental disasters.

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