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Comply with NIS2

NIS2 is an updated version of the NIS Directive, and it builds on the initial framework to address evolving cybersecurity challenges. It outlines requirements for operators of essential services (OES) and digital service providers (DSPs) to take appropriate security measures and report incidents to competent authorities.

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What is the NIS2 Directive?

The NIS2 directive is the EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity. It is broader in its scope than the original NIS directive, meaning more entities and sectors will be subject to cybersecurity risk management and incident reporting obligations than before.

Organizations subject to NIS2 will be obliged to “take appropriate and proportionate technical, operational and organizational measures to manage the risks posed to the security of network and information systems which those entities use for their operations or for the provision of their services, and to prevent or minimize the impact of incidents on recipients of their services and on other services”.

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5 ways Armis addresses NIS2

Armis Centrix™, the cyber exposure management platform, addresses many of the core obligations stipulated by the NIS2 directive. By providing state-of-the-art visibility into every critical asset, real-time asset intelligence, vulnerability analysis, AI-powered threat detection, and contextual incident information, Armis enables organizations to make defensible cyber risk management decisions.

How Armis helps with Article 21

NIS2 – Article 21

Member States shall ensure that essential and important entities take appropriate and proportionate technical, operational and organizational measures to manage the risks posed to the security of network and information systems and shall include at least the following:

a) policies on risk analysis and information system security
b) incident handling

Risk Analysis.
See, Protect and Manage all your assets.

At the heart of all risk management frameworks is the requirement to know which assets need risk analysis. Attack Surface Visibility is key to ensuring that risk decisions, and the subsequent mitigating capabilities and maturity of the capability, are sufficiently adequate and diligent to treat the risk.

Armis is the first step in enabling a defensible cyber maturity with regards to asset management specified in Article 21. Armis Centrix™ for Asset Management and Security provides a single source of truth and continuously discovers all your assets, including IT, IoT, cloud and virtual, managed or unmanaged. Armis powers an adaptive mature risk analysis function.

 

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How Armis helps with Article 21

NIS2 – Article 21

Member States shall ensure that essential and important entities take appropriate and proportionate technical, operational and organizational measures to manage the risks posed to the security of network and information systems and shall include at least the following:

a) policies on risk analysis and information system security
b) incident handling

Incident handling.
Optimize your organization’s incident response management plan.

The average enterprise has more than 50 cybersecurity-related tools. The Armis platform cuts through the noise by correlating data from across your IT, network, and security infrastructure, giving you improved visibility and actionable insights. It can quickly alert security teams to anomalous device behavior that can signal an attack. After incident response, security teams can access the platform’s logs for review and forensics.

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Member States should encourage the use of any innovative technology, including artificial intelligence, the use of which could improve the detection and prevention of cyberattacks, enabling resources to be diverted towards cyberattacks more effectively.

Classify assets and detect threats with a high degree of accuracy.

At the core of Armis Centrix™ is our AI-powered Asset Intelligence Engine, a giant, crowd-sourced, cloud-based asset behavior knowledgebase—the largest in the world, tracking over 3.5 billion assets.

With our Asset Intelligence Engine, Armis understands not only what the asset is and what it is doing, but what it should be doing. This is because we understand the context of each asset in its use in each environment. These asset insights enable Armis to classify assets and detect threats with a high degree of accuracy.

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Since the exploitation of vulnerabilities in network and information systems may cause significant disruption and harm, swiftly identifying and remedying such vulnerabilities is an important factor in reducing risk.

Focus on high-risk vulnerabilities that can cause costly disruptions.

Armis Centrix™ for Vulnerability Prioritization and Remediation (ViPR) goes beyond vulnerability scanning to address the full cyber risk management lifecycle. It enables you to understand asset risk, secure vulnerable assets, and control your attack surface.

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The Commission, ENISA and the Member States should continue to foster alignments with international standards and existing industry best practices in the area of cybersecurity risk management, for example in the areas of supply chain security assessments, information sharing and vulnerability disclosure.

Simplify security frameworks and regulatory compliance.

Frameworks like Center of Internet Security Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) and the NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) are the standard security blueprints for most organizations. The Armis platform provides compliance for CIS Controls as well as the NIST CSF controls across the Identify, Protect, Detect, and Respond categories for managed, unmanaged, IoT, ICS, medical devices and more.

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What our customers say

“It has definitely filled in the gaps in our security arsenal by uncovering risks we never knew about previously. At first, I thought Armis was a nice-to-have, but now it’s become an integral part of our cyber defense.”

Dr. Michael Connolly
CIO, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

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Additional Resources

Alignment to the NIS2 Directive

Download the white paper to learn more about the updated directive and the five ways Armis helps to achieve NIS2 Compliance.

A 100000/1 Shot Winner

Ensuring asset inventory is CIS IG3 entities compliant can also lead to a dramatic reduction in alerts to your Security Operations Center (SOC).

Alignment to the NIS2 Directive

Read this blog to learn more about the NIS (Network and Information Systems) Directive which aims to improve the security of network and information systems across the European Union.

Armis + ServiceNow: Overcoming the Operational Technology Blindspot

Download the white paper to learn about the 5 ways Armis and ServiceNow help to address the challenges of IT/OT convergence and NIS2 Compliance.