How Snare Can Support Your NIS2 Compliance

17 October 2024 is the deadline for NIS2 compliance and a date many cybersecurity professionals and organizations should have circled in their calendar. If this date is missed, the repercussions could be severe.  

NIS2 widens the focus on sectors within the European Union (EU) and imposes stronger requirements and harsher fines that organizations want to avoid. As the NIS2 deadline looms closer, organizations find themselves in a race against time to achieve compliance and put the required measures in place. Find out below how Snare Solutions helps with your compliance activities, making gaining and maintaining compliance a breeze. 

To check whether you’re within the scope for NIS2, please follow the link below:

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/cybersecurity-policy/nis-directive-new

What the stricter requirements mean and how you can meet them?

The NIS2 directive imposes harsher fines if organizations fail to adhere and implement the required changes to drive compliance. They could face severe fines of up to €10 million or two percent of their global annual turnover. 

Organizations can collect and analyse log data across various systems automatically with Snare, identifying vulnerabilities and areas of non-compliance. This insight forms the baseline for addressing gaps and meeting all regulatory requirements. 

Risk management and governance

NIS2 focuses on the importance of integrating cybersecurity into every aspect of an organization’s governance structure. Snare facilitates this by providing visibility into the security activities across the entire organization, from board-level oversight to operational teams. 

Our Snare solutions help organizations establish clear accountability and communication pathways, so that everyone, from the board to the frontline IT staff, understands their role in maintaining cybersecurity. Snare supports the ongoing governance and risk management efforts required to meet the NIS2 standards through our data engine’s 850+ pre-built, detailed, and customizable reports that help with cyber hygiene reporting and identifying indicators of compromise (IOCs). 

Incident detection, logging, analysis, response, and reporting

Section 9.1 of the new requirement includes various logging needs for monitoring, measurement, analysis, and evaluation. The reduced timeframe for organizations to report an incident highlights the need for faster threat detection and in-depth response capabilities. Snare provides the crucial information needed to identify and respond to threats fast using near-real-time log collection, analytics tools, and near-real-time alerting with threshold reporting. Its out-of-the-box reporting not only supports general cyber hygiene but also helps identify key indicators of compromise or weaknesses in system configuration that threat actors may exploit. Additionally, it offers event search capabilities to hunt for specific logs of malicious activity.  

Snare enhances an organization’s ability to detect potential threats early by integrating with a wide variety of supported security information and event management (SIEM) solutions seamlessly, reducing the time to respond to and report incidents. This keeps organizations compliant with log management necessary to meet NIS2’s strict incident reporting requirements while minimizing the impact of security breaches. 

Updating and implementing technical controls

Regular audits and secure access management are core components to achieve NIS2 compliance. Snare’s data engine simplifies conducting continuous audits by providing comprehensive visibility into user activities and system changes throughout your organization’s infrastructure. 

With Snare, businesses can implement role-based access control (RBAC) more effectively, tightly controlling access to sensitive data. Snare’s ability to collect and retain logs in a small footprint at a high compression rate for longer timeframes supports regular, in-depth log review assessments over extended periods, helping organizations quickly identify and remediate potential security weaknesses or threats to the business. 

Maintaining compliance and ensuring continuous improvement

Cybersecurity will always be a key focus point for organizations and, while NIS2 provides a significant step in improving cybersecurity posture within the EU, this shouldn’t be viewed as a target to meet, but as a foundation for further continual improvement. When an organization embraces continuous improvement, it gains the ability to anticipate future changes and better prepare for constantly evolving compliance requirements. 

Confidently meet the challenges imposed by NIS2

The NIS2 directive represents a significant change in how organizations across the EU must adapt and approach cybersecurity. Organizations can remain NIS2-compliant while building a robust and resilient security posture through Snare’s comprehensive logging, monitoring and data retention solution. 

You can build a foundation that supports continuous improvement, maintains compliance, and protects your organization against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats by integrating Snare into your cybersecurity strategy. 

For a detailed review of NIS2 from our cybersecurity experts, read our blog:
 Review of the NIS2 Directive

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