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NIS2 vs DORA vs GDPR: Untangling EU Cybersecurity Regulation
Three EU regulations, three different scopes, one confused compliance team. A clear map of who each one covers, where they overlap, and what to fix first.

WHOIS Is Dead, Long Live WHOIS: Investigating Domains After GDPR
GDPR redacted the registrant fields investigators relied on for decades. Domain attribution still works, but the pivots have moved: RDAP, name servers, certificates, and history.

Why EU Data Hosting Matters for Security Tooling
Your IOCs and telemetry contain personal data. Sending them to a US cloud service is a data transfer with legal strings attached. Here is what that means for your tooling choices.
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