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Romania’s Law 58/2023 created a national framework for cybersecurity and cyber defence that connects institutions, incident information and the providers whose technical services can reveal a wider threat. Law No. 58 of 14 March 2023 was published on 15 March…
Spain’s whistleblower law turns an ethics hotline into a governed information system: confidential, accessible, traceable and capable of handling anonymous reports without losing follow-up. Law 2/2023, published on 21 February 2023, implemented the EU Whistleblower Directive and went beyond a…
Belgium’s private-sector whistleblower law is not satisfied by publishing an ethics address. Covered employers need an accessible reporting route, independent follow-up and confidentiality that survives the entire case. Belgium’s Law of 28 November 2022 on protection of persons who report…
Why pay for an expensive backup solution in your home-lab when you can install PowerShell for free? The script below will handle simple backups for you. You only have to add it to the Windows Scheduler or create a Cron…
Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act requires a complaints process that reaches beyond employees and headquarters. It is meant to reveal human-rights and environmental risks across the operating chain. The Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, or LkSG, first applied on 1 January 2023 to…
Caution: This may cause your system to hang on boot. I must admit, I haven’t done a fresh install of this system since upgrading to Windows 10 1903, moving the NVMe drive from an older laptop to this machine, updating…
The United Kingdom’s strengthened telecom-security regime does not tell providers merely to manage risk. It pushes legal duties into network design, privileged access, monitoring, supply chains and recovery. The Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021 amended the Communications Act 2003 and created…
In the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s Gericom released various laptop models and was fairly popular in western Europe. These laptops were sold under the brands Gericom (mainly Germany), Advent (mainly in the UK and Ireland) and in Spain…
Portugal’s whistleblower regime turns reporting into a protected conversation. Covered organisations need written and oral routes, confidentiality, acknowledgement, follow-up and evidence that retaliation is not tolerated. Law No. 93/2021 of 20 December established Portugal’s general regime for protection of reporting…
This happens only when the NAS is connected to domain with multiple domains in the forest and after the upgrade to DSM version 7.1. The default Management Mode setting is “Trusted Domains” with all domains in the forest selected. To…
After playing with Veeam 11 for a bit, I decided to get my Linux Docker physical host on the backup schedule. The hardware is getting older (Some would call it vintage or just plain ancient as it’s a 2nd gen…
Spain’s 2022 National Security Framework does not stop at the government network. It follows public information and services into the systems of contractors, cloud providers and their supply chains. Royal Decree 311/2022 replaced Spain’s earlier Esquema Nacional de Seguridad, or…
