Which NIS2 tasks can software help with, and which can it not?
Software helps with tasks that produce or analyse data; it cannot take decisions, carry legal responsibility or change behaviour on its own. Tools can help with detecting incidents (network and endpoint detection), keeping evidence and tracking reporting deadlines, managing vulnerabilities and patches, enforcing multi-factor authentication, running and testing backups, keeping an asset inventory, and collecting audit evidence. They cannot decide whether you are in scope, register you, approve measures on behalf of the management body, judge whether an incident is significant, submit the reports, negotiate supplier contracts or make staff follow training. Plan both columns: the tools and, next to each, the person who owns the decision. NetSenX covers network detection, incident evidence and NIS2NIS2: the EU's second Network and Information Security directive. The EU cybersecurity law (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) that sets security and incident-reporting duties for many companies. deadline tracking; it never submits reports for you.
General information, not legal advice. National laws can add to the EU texts quoted here, for example deadlines, forms or reporting channels: check your own country's rules.
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Terms used here
- NIS2 (the EU's second Network and Information Security directive)
- The EU cybersecurity law (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) that sets security and incident-reporting duties for many companies.