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NIS2 Risk Management Checklist

NIS2 is shaping the cybersecurity landscape for European organizations. With stricter security measures and higher penalties for non-compliance, organizations are take actions.

Implemented in 2024, NIS2 is the updated EU directive on cybersecurity. Like any new compliance framework, achieving compliance won’t just happen; it takes organizational commitment and ongoing focused and coordinated effort, and here is how Wire can help.

Key changes include:

  • Broader sector coverage
  • Stricter incident reporting timelines
  • Enhanced supply chain security requirements
  • More vigorous enforcement mechanism

10 Ways Wire Helps You Achieve NIS2 Compliance

Use this checklist to see how Wire can help you meet NIS2 risk management requirements.

NIS2 Requirements How Wire Helps

Risk Analysis and Information Systems Security Policies

NIS2 entities must document and proactively mitigate cybersecurity threats across networks, systems, and applications.

Improved Security for Enterprise Collaboration

Digital collaboration is how much sensitive data is shared. Wire reduces risk by protecting messaging, voice and video calls, conferencing, and file sharing with end-to-end encryption.

Incident Handling

NIS2 requires organizations to have vetted plans to handle IT breakdowns and cyber incidents, particularly in cases where internal channels may be unavailable or compromised.

OOB Communications

Wire provides a secure, highly available, and reliable encrypted OOB (out-of-band) channel for messaging, calls, and file sharing, enabling swift response coordination to IT outages and cyber incidents.

Business Continuity

Another key NIS2 requirement is rigorous business continuity planning, including backup processes, disaster recovery, and crisis management. 

Backup Communications

Wire enables organizations to maintain secure communication across teams as a backup system, supporting disaster recovery and crisis coordination.

Supply Chain Security

Securing vital supply chains is a key priority under NIS2. While the ultimate concern is to keep up the flow of physical goods, Article 21 is concerned with protecting digital relationships across supply chain partners.

Secure Supply Chain Communications

Wire protects digital supplier communications with industry-leading encryption and flexible access controls, ensuring secure collaboration across internal teams, external partners, and guests.

Securing Network and Information Systems Lifecycle

NIS2 mandates security across the entire IT and network infrastructure lifecycle, including vendor compliance, secure development, and threat management. 

Secure ChatOps for IT Teams

Wire provides an end-to-end encrypted ChatOps platform, ensuring secure collaboration to protect sensitive infrastructure management, automation, and application development work.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Risk Management

Organizations must implement policies under NIS2 for regular cybersecurity risk testing and management, including code-level assessments.

Easy-to-Verify OOB Communications

As an essential part of risk mitigation, Wire makes it easy to verify functionality due to its ease of use. Wire goes beyond functional testing, offering open-source transparency.

Cyber Hygiene

Effective cyber hygiene requires secure, user-friendly communication tools. In too many cases, organizations sacrifice security for productivity or force users to live with security friction, often leading to insecure shadow IT solutions.

User-Friendly Secure Collaboration

Wire removes the barrier between security and usability, providing an easy-to-use collaboration suite with the highest security standards available. Users can maintain cyber hygiene without giving up productivity.

Cryptographic Security Policy

NIS2 requires covered entities to implement policies and procedures regarding the use of cryptography across systems, applications, and processes.

Quantum-Ready Security

Wire simplifies the implementation of encryption policies across all communications and provides a future-proof path to post-quantum cryptography with flexible cipher suite support.

Human Resources Security

Article 21 requires entities to establish HR security, including access control policies and secure asset management.

Secure HR Communications

Wire protects sensitive HR communications and asset management with end-to-end encryption, access control alerts, and secure collaboration and file sharing for recruitment and employee discussions.

MFA and Secure Voice, Video, and Messaging for Operational and Crisis Use

The final requirement under Article 21 is multi-factor identification(MFA) as part of the identification and access management (IAM). 

MLS-Secured Collaboration

Wire provides enterprise-grade secure messaging, calls, and conferencing that is powerful enough to use for everyday operational collaboration and easy to adopt for crisis communication requirements.

Let Us Help

If your organization is developing an NIS2 strategy, contact us. Our solution experts will be glad to show you how Wire can contribute to your approach.

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