Uncertain whether your data security strategy aligns with the European Union’s new Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2)? Given the rise in remote work across a multitude of devices and our growing interconnected world, meeting the heightened expectations for data security by the October 2024 deadline may pose a challenge. The reassuring news is that we can assist and support you on your path to achieving NIS2 compliance.
Data security is an everchanging challenge
According to findings from Microsoft, 74 percent of organisations they surveyed encountered incidents involving business data, including the exposure of intellectual property in the past year.1
Data breaches can inflict severe financial consequences on organisations and the situation becomes even more critical when non-compliance is taken into account. Ensuring data security requires layers of protection to help safeguard data across its various locations and importantly, those layers of security are aligned with the measures NIS2 will require.
NIS2 data security requirements:
Encryption
Risk management and analysis
Asset management and risk analysis
1. Encryption requirement
Implementing proactive measures, such as robust encryption, is crucial for safeguarding systems against cyber threats. Utilising end-to-end encryption ensures that data remains unreadable to external entities and remains secure from the moment it is transmitted from one device to another.
2. Risk management and analysis requirement
Organisations will encounter fresh reporting obligations aimed at businesses to better equip them in handling cyber-attacks. Additionally, they must establish a crisis management plan to effectively respond quickly and effectively to cyber incidents, with the goal of minimising the impact and prevent further attacks in the future.
IT teams needed to possess an understanding of what is normal activity within their organisation enabling them to assess risk levels and take the appropriate action.
3. Asset management and risk analysis
Businesses will be required to have a complete visibility and handle of their data so that they can apply effective access management to reduce the risk of a data leak. As we look to the future businesses who are beginning to adopt AI tools, it is essential they map their data to make sure AI is adopted securely, mediating the risk of oversharing of sensitive data or a devastating data leak.
How can CWSI and Microsoft help you on your NIS2 journey?
When it comes to NIS2 you need an experienced partner
For more than a decade, CWSI has been instrumental in enabling our customers to thrive within the continually evolving threat landscape. Our team of security experts have extensive experience and apply strict security policies and processes from our deep knowledge and understanding of the forthcoming NIS2 Directive.
CWSI can assist you in assessing if your organisation falls within the scope of the NIS2 Directive. For each key requirement of the directive, CWSI can help discover and document your current state of preparedness and provide you with an individual roadmap to achieving NIS2 compliance.
Holding three Microsoft Security Specialisations in Identity and Access Management, Information Protection and Governance and Threat Protection, CWSI serves as an expert in these crucial NIS2 areas – Identity, Data Governance, Security Threat Protection and Response, Education and Awareness and Security Policy.
It’s our people and their expertise that ensure that your business can close the gap between its current security state and compliance.
