The importance of choosing the right IT partner is escalating due to increased EU regulatory compliance demands.
Modernizing Businesses: Navigating EU Regulations with the Right IT Partners
The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, thanks to EU regulations like DORA, MiCA, the AI Act, and others, pushing for stricter security, transparency, and accessibility standards. This shift from legal considerations to practical implementation work creates a crucial challenge: ensuring your technology infrastructure keeps up.
According to Andzej Suskevic, CEO of Baltic Amadeus, this underscores the importance of choosing the right IT partner. Teaming up with experts who understand EU regulations and how they impact technology infrastructure can make the difference between a smooth compliance strategy and costly roadblocks.
Making Compliance a Core Part of Your Strategy
The digital landscape is swarming with new regulations, such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), introduced in January 2025, which sets strict ICT risk, continuity, and testing standards across the financial sector. The Network and Information Security Directive 2.0 (NIS2), in force from October 2024, raises cybersecurity requirements for critical and essential entities. The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) took effect in December 2024, regulating crypto-asset services within the EU, while the European Accessibility Act (EAA) requires accessibility for people with disabilities in public-facing digital services, with a deadline in June 2025.
Failing to comply with these regulations can have severe consequences, ranging from hefty fines and legal battles to damaged reputation and missed business opportunities. Today's regulations, like the GDRP before them, signal the new normal for regulatory enforcement. When it comes to ensuring compliance, it's no longer enough to rely on legal teams alone; the technical team's expertise and IT vendor partnerships are indispensable.
The right IT partners can help with developing compliant architecture, enhancing accessibility, ensuring traceability, and preparing for resilience testing—all while understanding the regulatory landscape and the infrastructure behind secure, reliable, user-centric digital services.
Embracing Compliance as a Competitive Advantage
Savvy organizations recognize that early compliance action presents a valuable opportunity. For instance, DORA-aligned infrastructure boosts resilience, NIS2 measures improve threat response, EAA increases usability, and MiCA allows crypto platforms to gain structured market access and investor trust.
Adopting a proactive approach to compliance can lead to numerous benefits, including better architecture, fewer vulnerabilities, and increased stakeholder confidence. Looking ahead, this regulatory landscape will continue to expand, with the upcoming AI Act introducing additional governance layers around artificial intelligence systems.
** Choosing Your IT Partner **
Many businesses lack the internal IT capacity to tackle complex regulatory requirements. In light of this, 89% of organizations would require more cybersecurity staff to comply with NIS2, with the largest talent gaps in cybersecurity architecture and engineering, and cybersecurity operations, according to a report by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). In these cases, working with an external IT partner can help bridge the skills gap, ensuring compliance without straining limited resources.
Responding to this reality, Suskevic states, "Regulatory compliance can be complicated and costly for organizations without in-house IT teams. The right external IT partner can help bridge the talent shortage, enabling compliance not just for the deadline but for long-term operational resilience.”
Ideal IT partners combine deep technical knowledge with regulatory expertise and offer proven strategies for integrating compliance into your technology infrastructure. The right partner can help turn regulatory compliance from an endless, reactive obligation into a strategic asset, positioning your organization for long-term success.
- To navigate the evolving digital landscape in adherence with EU regulations such as DORA, MiCA, the AI Act, and others, it is essential to find an IT partner that understand these regulations and how they impact technology infrastructure.
- Compliance with upcoming regulations like DORA, NIS2, EAA, MiCA, and the future AI Act can offer numerous benefits, including better architecture, fewer vulnerabilities, increased stakeholder confidence, and a competitive advantage in resilience, threat response, usability, and market access.
- As businesses grapple with complex regulatory requirements and talent shortages, partnering with an external IT expert that offers both technical knowledge and regulatory expertise can provide a strategic solution for long-term operational resilience and compliance.
