List of Cybersecurity Laws and Regulations in the UK | UpGuard

**Executive Summary:** This markdown brief outlines the current UK and EU cybersecurity legal and regulatory landscape—covering DPA 2018/UK‑GDPR, NIS2, DORA, the UK Operational Resilience Framework, the EU Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Acts, the Computer Misuse Act 1990, the Telecommunications (Security) Act, and PECR—describing who falls under each regime, mandatory compliance requirements (including incident reporting deadlines and third‑party controls), typical enforcement actions and fines, and key national reporting bodies such as the NCSC and the CiSP.