Framework Coverage

NIS 2 Compliance Requires More Than Policy. Cynet Delivers the Technical Controls.

One platform that covers NIS 2's cybersecurity risk management, incident handling, and reporting requirements for essential and important entities across the EU.

Standard

NIS 2 Directive (EU) 2022/2555

Scope

Essential & important entities, MSPs, and cloud providers in covered EU sectors

Key Obligation

Article 21 technical & organizational measures + Article 23 incident reporting

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The Directive

NIS 2 Is in Force. The Scope Is Wider Than You Think.

The NIS 2 Directive is in force across EU member states, dramatically expanding the scope of binding cybersecurity obligations. Essential sectors — energy, healthcare, transport, banking, digital infrastructure, and public administration — and important sectors — manufacturing, postal services, food, chemicals, and digital services — are all covered, including their MSPs and cloud providers.

NIS 2 mandates cybersecurity risk management, incident reporting, and supply chain security with management-level accountability and significant financial penalties. Article 21 defines specific technical and organizational measures organizations must implement. Cynet delivers the technical controls across all of them.

Scope Expansion: MSPs and Cloud Providers Included

NIS 2 applies to all medium and large entities in covered sectors, dramatically expanding the population of organizations subject to binding cybersecurity requirements. MSPs and cloud providers are explicitly included, making Cynet's unified platform directly relevant to NIS 2 compliance support for the entire supply chain, not just end-user organizations.

How Cynet Helps

NIS 2 Article 21 Requirements Mapping

Cynet's unified, AI-powered platform with built-in MDR directly addresses the Article 21 technical measures NIS 2 requires — from risk management and incident handling to supply chain security, vulnerability management, and incident reporting.

RISK MGMT Policies on risk analysis and information system security (Art. 21(2)(a)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(a) · Risk Analysis · Information System Security Policy

Cynet's endpoint vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence integration, and risk scoring provides the ongoing risk analysis required by NIS 2. Automated risk reports support documented information system security policies.

INCIDENT Incident detection, analysis, containment, and recovery (Art. 21(2)(b)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(b) · Incident Handling · Detection · Containment · Recovery

Cynet's XDR solution detects incidents automatically, initiates pre-built response playbooks for containment, and documents the full incident timeline for analysis and reporting. Incidents are handled in seconds rather than hours.

CONTINUITY Backups, disaster recovery, and crisis management (Art. 21(2)(c)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(c) · Business Continuity · Backup Management · Crisis Management

Cynet's automated threat containment — endpoint isolation and traffic blocking — and rapid remediation capabilities minimize operational disruption, supporting business continuity objectives. CyOps MDR provides 24×7 incident response and crisis management support.

SUPPLY CHAIN Supplier and service provider security relationships (Art. 21(2)(d)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(d) · Supply Chain Security · Third-Party Risk

Cynet SSPM and CSPM monitors third-party SaaS and cloud environments for security risks. Cynet's own platform operates under documented security commitments, supporting supply chain security due diligence requirements.

NETWORK SEC Network and information system acquisition, development, and maintenance (Art. 21(2)(e)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(e) · Network Security · System Lifecycle · Configuration Management

Cynet provides continuous network traffic monitoring, vulnerability assessment, and configuration management, covering the full lifecycle of network and information system security required by NIS 2.

VULN MGMT Policies to assess effectiveness — vulnerability disclosure (Art. 21(2)(f)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(f) · Vulnerability Management · Security Effectiveness · Disclosure

Cynet's endpoint vulnerability scanning provides continuous assessment of security effectiveness. Vulnerabilities are risk-ranked and tracked through remediation, supporting documented policies aligned to NIS 2 disclosure requirements.

CRYPTOGRAPHY Policies on the use of cryptography and encryption (Art. 21(2)(h)) ▾

Art. 21(2)(h) · Cryptography Policy · Encryption · Configuration Audit

Cynet SSPM and CSPM solutions audit cloud and SaaS configurations for encryption settings, identifying environments where cryptography policies are not enforced and flagging NIS 2 compliance gaps before they become incidents.

REPORTING Early warning, notification, and final report to national authority (Art. 23) ▾

Art. 23 · 24-Hour Early Warning · 72-Hour Notification · Final Report

Cynet's automated incident documentation — including attack timelines, affected systems, and business impact assessments — provides the structured evidence required for NIS 2's tiered incident reporting obligations: 24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, and final report.

Key Capabilities

What Cynet Delivers for NIS 2 Compliance

XDR with Automated Incident Handling

Detect, analyze, contain, and document incidents automatically — addressing NIS 2's incident handling requirements from detection through recovery.

Tiered Incident Reporting Documentation

Automated attack timelines, affected system records, and business impact assessments provide the structured evidence for NIS 2's 24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, and final incident report obligations.

Endpoint Vulnerability Management

Endpoint CVE scanning, risk-ranked prioritization, and remediation tracking support NIS 2's requirements for assessing security effectiveness and managing vulnerabilities.

SSPM / CSPM

Monitor third-party SaaS and cloud environments for security risks and encryption compliance, addressing both supply chain security and cryptography policy requirements.

Network Security

Real-time traffic monitoring, lateral movement detection, and network anomaly alerts covering NIS 2's network and information system security requirements.

CyOps 24×7 MDR

24×7 expert monitoring, threat hunting, and crisis management support — providing the continuous operational security posture NIS 2 demands at the management accountability level.

Why Cynet

One Platform. Full NIS 2 Technical Coverage.

NIS 2 mandates cross-domain security — endpoints, network, identity, cloud, email. Cynet delivers all five natively, without integration projects.
Automated incident documentation compresses reporting preparation from hours to minutes — critical when NIS 2's 24-hour early warning clock starts running.
Single, natively-built platform architecture simplifies NIS 2's supply chain security due diligence — one vendor to assess, one security architecture to document.
CyOps MDR provides the 24×7 monitoring and expert response that satisfies NIS 2's management-level cybersecurity accountability requirements.
100% Detection, Protection, and Technique-Level coverage in 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations provides independently validated detection effectiveness evidence for NIS 2 risk management documentation.

Meet Your NIS 2 Technical Obligations with Cynet

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