NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) requires essential and important entities to take cybersecurity risk-management measures across areas such as incident handling, business continuity, supply-chain security, vulnerability handling, access control and encryption, and to report significant incidents in stages: an early warning within 24 hours, a notification within 72 hours and a final report within a month. Management bodies must approve the measures and can be held liable. DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554), which has applied to EU financial entities since January 2025, sets out ICT risk management, incident classification and reporting, resilience testing and a register of ICT third-party arrangements.
None of that can be met by a document written once. Supervisors ask whether controls operate, and the evidence (tickets, scan results, access reviews, test reports, training records, supplier contracts) is scattered across Jira or ServiceNow, Tenable or Qualys, the identity provider, SharePoint and inboxes. Assembling it by hand before every audit is slow and leaves gaps undiscovered until someone asks.