Outdated Cybercrime Laws Put Security Researchers at Risk
A new five-point policy framework aims to shield ethical hackers from outdated cybercrime statutes — directly relevant for EU enterprises running bug-bounty or red-team programmes under NIS2 expectations.
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A public policy expert mapped global cybercrime laws to develop a five-point framework for protecting ethical hackers and good-faith security research.
Editorial Analysis
As NIS2 pushes more European organisations toward active vulnerability management, legal clarity for researchers and red teams becomes a prerequisite for effective programmes.
Update your coordinated vulnerability-disclosure policy to include explicit legal safe-harbour language aligned with the proposed framework.
Ambiguous cybercrime laws still expose ethical hackers to prosecution — a new framework could lower legal risk for enterprises running security-testing programmes.
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