Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

If your company has 50 or more staff, or turns over more than €10 million, and it works in one of the 18 sectors listed in the EU's NIS2 directive, you are almost certainly in scope. National transposition deadlines passed in October 2024, and enforcement has been building since. Checking where you stand takes under an hour. Here is that hour, and a first week that does not begin with a purchase order.

Cyber insurers now routinely ask smaller organisations for evidence of penetration testing before they'll even quote a premium. That single requirement has pushed a lot of businesses, charities and schools into a market they don't understand, full of firms whose "testing" amounts to running a vulnerability scanner and printing the results. Knowing who's actually doing manual, accredited work versus who's reselling automated output matters more than most buyers realise until they're staring at a report full of generic findings.

Modern network defense requires more than basic firewalls or passive monitoring software. Security incidents strike fast, leaving corporate infrastructure vulnerable without proper operational preparation. Building swift recovery capabilities keeps operational downtime minimal and protects key assets across digital enterprise operations.