Natascha Gerlach is the new Director of EU Privacy and Data Policy at The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), where she will focus on a wide range of privacy and data policy-related topics.

Firms supplying essential services – such as energy, transport, banking and health, or digital services – such as search engines and cloud services, will have to improve their ability to withstand cyber attacks under the first EU-wide rules on cybersecurity, approved by the European Parliament in July.