Routers are emerging as a previously underestimated security and sovereignty risk, requiring critical examination in supply chain security discussions among European industry associations.
With NIS2, microsegmentation becomes a mandatory measure for enterprises to prevent lateral movement after network intrusion and technically implement Zero Trust.
A roughly 90-minute total outage of the GSM-R railway radio network exposed the dependence of critical infrastructure on a single point of failure component lacking documented failover protection.
A nationwide failure of the train radio system on 23 June 2026 brought rail traffic in Germany to a standstill and demonstrates the risks of critical infrastructure’s dependence on centralized communication systems.
Austria is implementing the NIS2 Directive with a registration deadline of July 31, affecting approximately 30,000 companies operating critical infrastructure and digital services.
