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With DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) coming into force in January 2025 across European banking, insurance, and investment firms, alongside national NIS2 deadlines, compliance teams and engineering organizations faced a stark choice: drown in manual spreadsheets or automate compliance as code. [Read More]

Mid-2024 witnessed one of the largest IT disruptions in history when a single faulty channel file update pushed to a widely used endpoint security driver triggered bootloops across millions of hosts globally—grounding flights at Brussels Airport, disrupting Belgian healthcare systems, and bringing financial operations to a standstill. [Read More]

During the first half of 2024, Belgium held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Central to the Belgian presidency agenda was strengthening European cyber resilience ahead of national and European Parliament elections. [Read More]

On December 8, 2023, after an intense 36-hour negotiation session in Brussels, European Union policymakers reached a landmark agreement on the EU AI Act—the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for Artificial Intelligence. [Read More]

Summer 2023 marked a watershed moment for Generative AI adoption in Europe. As companies rushed to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into customer portals and internal enterprise workflows, European data protection authorities (led by the EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce and national DPAs like Belgium’s APD/GBA) issued stern reminders: GDPR compliance is non-negotiable. [Read More]

As the European Union finalised the NIS2 Directive (Network and Information Security Directive), organisations across Belgium—from Antwerp’s bustling port logistics to energy grids and healthcare networks—faced a pivotal shift in cybersecurity obligations. [Read More]

Open carefully. I’m mostly harmless [Read More]

Under what circumstances should we step off a path? When is it essential that we finish what we start? If I bought a bag of peanuts and had an allergic reaction, no one would fault me if I threw it out. If I ended a relationship with a woman who hit me, no one would say that I... [Read More]