Security as a legal obligation. Sarbanes Oxley in the European Union

Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act there is a worldwide focus on security issues in general. This new focus seems to emphasise that security is a new kind of legal obligation. However, security is already a legal obligation for all EU companies since the early nineties. On top of that, in electronic banking there is a whole range of legal obligations in some way related to security, that were already (and remain) applicable, notwithstanding a possible application of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on some EU companies. The criterion of what can be 'reasonably expected' as 'bonus pater familias' from service providers, …

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