Let’s remember that the NIS 2 Directive is crucial.
The NIS 2 Directive, adopted by the European Union, enhances the cybersecurity of critical infrastructures and essential services. It expands its scope compared to the first NIS directive, in order to better address modern cyber threats. By imposing strict obligations on entities to secure their networks and information systems, NIS 2 has direct and significant implications for your users.
The NIS 2 Directive: Obligations (and benefits) for everyone!
The NIS 2 Directive applies to a wide range of entities, including SMEs in critical sectors such as energy, transportation, health, and financial services. Here is what you need to know and how it impacts your users:
Risk Management and Security
Collective and Individual
At the collective level: Companies must implement robust risk management measures to secure their information systems. This includes:
- A thorough analysis of vulnerabilities
- Solutions to mitigate them.
At the individual level: Users must be involved and empowered to participate in better protection of personal data and reducing the risk of security breaches. The effort of all benefits everyone.
Incident Reporting
Making everyone a part of improved proactivity is ambitious, complex, but necessary. This necessarily involves better risk reporting.
At the collective level: Significant cybersecurity incidents must be reported quickly to the competent national authority, such as ANSSI in France:
- 24 hours for an early warning
- 72 hours for a full notification.
At the individual level: Training must be accelerated so that everyone knows when to press the red button wisely. This ensures a quick and coordinated response in the event of a cyberattack, minimizing potential impacts on each user’s environment.
Supply Chain Security
At the collective level: Companies must secure their supply chains, including suppliers and service providers, to prevent rebound attacks.
At the individual level: Users/employees within the supply chain gain more confidence in the service chain, allowing them to more calmly consider relationships with stakeholders.”
Technological Innovation in Cybersecurity
At the collective level: NIS 2 encourages the use of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enhance the security of networks and information systems. These technologies enable faster anomaly detection and effective response to security incidents.
At the individual level: There is a strong demand to learn how to better manage risks associated with AI, and the loss of control they can induce. Working on training actions on consistency checks, as well as more engaging elements like deepfakes or automated targeted phishing, helps to develop individual human resilience.
Could Training and Awareness be the Key?
With Cyber Investigation, we contribute to better NIS 2 compliance, but also to a better-understood collective dynamic. The key is to offer specialized cybersecurity training and courses accessible to all types of profiles, where everyone can find individual interest. These paths aim to improve professional skills and raise organizational awareness of best practices to prepare for a compliant cyber future, but also a more efficient one.
Cybersecurity wins when all users are involved!
Cybersecurity is no longer just a matter for specialists; it concerns all businesses and organizations, as well as their users. By understanding and making the NIS 2 directive useful to everyone and not just constraining:
- You protect your own systems
- And you also contribute to the resilience of critical infrastructures on the scale of your business.
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Prepare now and take the necessary steps to secure your systems and networks, to ensure a secure and reliable user experience.
