QUESTION: How can I best protect my SME business against liability risks arising from the EU/nIS2 Regulation or ANY other current and future mandatory EU or foreign regulations? Please note: The NIS2 Directive significantly expands your cybersecurity responsibilities. As an NIS2 entity, you must secure not only your own operations but also your entire supply chain, including those of your suppliers. This is also important even if you are only a smaller supplier and your company is not an NIS2 entity itself, as you may be exposed to significantly stricter requirements from the NIS2 client and thus increased legal and financial risks (direct or indirect) if your services/products participate in an external NIS2 supply chain. ANSWER: By implementing a robust, future-proof IT/OT service management (ITSM) concept to provide maximum operational and security 24x7-insights across your own IT/OT environment, and beyond… Please note: Given the EU/NIS2 regulations and its supply chain obligations for sub-contractors in case of critical NIS2 supply chains, this also requires greater online security and observability of your parts/components deployed in the supply chain at each customer location. This is preferably done online, or alternatively via a regularly scheduled assessment report that can be seamlessly integrated into your comprehensive overall monitoring platform. Based on more than 20 years of experience in monitoring (IT + OT), we have come to the conclusion that the Splunk Enterprise Platform (a Cisco company per 2024) is the best choice in this case: it offers powerfull security insights and observability options (IT/OT) in combination with a flexible and comprehensive (secure) distributed architecture. FOR SMEs We recommend: 1. create A clear (AIR-GAPPED) separation between your outsourced primary business workloads and your STRATEGIC monitoring processes. Keep your strategic and critical monitoring systems under your direct and full control (ON-EDGE), independent of any other external IT or cloud providers. 2. Centralize all your monitoring on a single and proven IT/ot service management platform: Consolidate all your strategic 24/7 monitoring processes on a single, proven, robust, and unified platform. This approach simplifies management, provides consistent visibility, and eliminates the learning curve of your multi-vendor systems. Note: Instead of the one-dimensional big-tech cloud-only outsourcing strategy of recent years, which is popular and widely used by SMEs and typically encompasses a standard suit of security and operational ITSM/BI service tools. It may be wiser, in light of the NIS2 regulation, to invest in developing your own air-gapped on-edge monitoring concept based on your own knowledge and expertise. This increases your legal resilience and leverage in potential disputes with your external (IT) supplier(s) and government agency. This reduces your liability risk and prevents financial and reputational damage. 3. THEREFORE AND Especially for SMES: implement Your OWN EU COMPLIANCE BOX ON-EDGE concept, based on the powerful and world-renowned Splunk Enterprise platform. It offers a scalable, future-proof and robust solution for small and medium- sized businesses. This box concept is quick and easy to implement, gives you almost immediate insights into your data, minimizes risks, and helps you comply with all current and future EU regulations.

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