Cybersecurity

Cybercrime and Incident Response

This seminar, the final in our 2025 TMT seminar series, provides an in-depth discussion of the legal obligations triggered by cyber incidents, as well as insights for building an effective incident response strategy that protects your organisation.

Charlotte Conings to moderate session at “25 Years of Cyber Justice” event

On 27 November, Charlotte Conings will moderate the session “Balancing Privacy and Law Enforcement in the Digital Age” at the 25 Years of Cyber Justice event, marking the 25th anniversary of Belgium’s foundational law on cybercrime.

DNB and AFM Joint Report on digital dependence in the financial sector

On 20 October 2025, the Dutch Central Bank and the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets published a joint report on the current state of financial sector’s dependence on non-European IT Infrastructure.

Stibbe represented OneSpan on its strategic investment in and partnership with ThreatFabric

Stibbe represented OneSpan, a global leader in digital identity and anti-fraud solutions, on its strategic investment in and partnership with ThreatFabric, a provider of proactive fraud detection and mobile threat intelligence solutions.

June Van Hool

Junior Associate Brussels

The European Health Data Space (EHDS): new opportunities and obligations for healthcare institutions

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) will enter into force on 25 March 2025. The aim of the new European Regulation (EU) 2025/327 on the EHDS is to optimise the exchange of and access to health information within the EU.

Belgian data protection authority fines hospital after data breach for taking insufficient data protection measures

In 2021, a Belgian hospital fell victim to a ransomware attack that disrupted critical operations and compromised the personal data of 300,000 people. As a result, the Belgian data protection authority imposed a fine of €200,000 three years later.

TMT seminar series 2024

Following our successful TMT seminar series in 2023, our TMT team is happy to announce five new seminars taking place in 2024. Please find an outline of the seminars in the article below.

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: our 16 key takeaways

The AI Act is the first comprehensive AI regulation in the world. In this first episode of our Artificial Intelligence series, we have set out our initial key takeaways on the AI Act based on the text as currently approved by the Council of the EU.

DORA: hoe de financiële sector weerbaarder moet worden tegen cyber risico’s

In deze nieuwste Stibbe Legal Insights spreken Nynke Brouwer en Roderik Vrolijk over de Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), die moet zorgen voor een betere digitale operationele weerbaarheid van financiële instellingen in de Europese Unie.

The impact of geopolitical developments on transactions: a tangled web of rules and hurdles

Where is the line between openness and protectionism in the European single market? At both EU and national level, more and more protective barriers against foreign investors and acquirers have been created in the international competition.

The revised Network and Information Security Directive: enhancing EU cybersecurity standards

More businesses and organisations will have to strengthen their cybersecurity strategies, as the European legislator revised the NIS Directive. NIS 2 will impose stricter cybersecurity obligations on more organisations.

Voorstel voor de Cyber Resilience Act

In onderstaande bijdrage in het Nederlands Juristenblad wordt door Nynke Brouwer en Minke Reijneveld het voorstel voor de Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) besproken.

Revised Dutch Corporate Governance Code published

The Dutch Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee (the Committee) adopted the revised Dutch Corporate Governance Code (the 2022 Code) on 20 December 2022.

Geactualiseerde Nederlandse Corporate Governance Code gepubliceerd

Op 20 december 2022 heeft de Monitoring Commissie Corporate Governance Code (de “Commissie”) de geactualiseerde Nederlandse Corporate Governance Code (de “Code 2022”) gepresenteerd.