The NIS2 Cybersecurity Directive – What it Might Mean for Nonprofits
The NIS2 Cybersecurity Directive – What it Might Mean for Nonprofits
NIS2 is the EU's cybersecurity directive that aims to build a common level of cybersecurity capabilities and mitigate threats to network and information systems across the EU’s essential services in key sectors.
This session will give you an overview of the EU’s future digital regulatory landscape, then focusing on the incoming NIS2 directive and how it might affect Irish nonprofits, in particular organisations who provide services on behalf of state bodies and government service providers.
Specifically, the session will look at
- The EU’s Digital Decade
- The NIS2 Directive, who is in scope and what are the key requirement
- How it might affect Irish nonprofits.
- Steps you can take to comply.
This event is being brought to you with the kind support of the Dublin office of DLA Piper, a global law firm with offices in over 40 countries. The firm actively supports nonprofits and social enterprises through pro bono initiatives and its "New Perimeter" program, which provides legal assistance in underserved regions worldwide.
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by participants.
- Please email matthew@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Your Facilitator:
Lorcan Moylan Burke is a senior lawyer in DLA Piper’s Data Protection, Privacy, and Cybersecurity team based in Dublin. He advises global businesses across technology, life sciences, insurance, and financial services sectors. Lorcan specialises on advising clients on cyber compliance and resilience programs, cyber assurance, and responding to cybersecurity incidents and personal data breaches.
Lorcan is an active member of DLA Piper’s working groups for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the Network and Information Security II Directive (NIS2) as part of the firm's wider Digital Decade strategy in response to the EU’s ten-year digital transformation plan with a raft of new data, digital and cyber regulation coming into law over the coming months and years.