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European Union

NIS2 and the software you run

NIS2 broadens EU cybersecurity law to a long list of essential and important sectors, with management-level accountability and real penalties. Among its risk-management measures sit duties that are squarely about software: supply chain security, vulnerability handling, and the effectiveness of it all.

Who this applies to Essential and important entities across sectors from energy and transport to digital infrastructure and manufacturing, as transposed into each member state’s national law.
What it asks for
Risk-management measures
Technical and organizational measures proportionate to risk, explicitly including supply chain security and vulnerability handling.
Supply chain accountability
Security of relationships with suppliers, including the software and components they deliver.
Incident readiness and reporting
Detect, respond, and report significant incidents on tight timelines.
Management accountability
Boards approve and oversee the measures, which means they need evidence, not assurances.
How SecuNexa and BOMNexa map to it
Vulnerability handling
A single prioritized queue across applications, containers, and hosts, with SLAs, audit trails, and evidence per finding.
Supply chain measures
SBOMs for what you build, artifact scanning for what vendors deliver, and continuous re-evaluation as disclosures land.
Effectiveness evidence
Deterministic scan reports and trend metrics give boards and auditors an objective picture of posture over time.

Tools do not make you compliant; they make compliance provable. SecuNexa and BOMNexa supply the technical evidence described on this page. Governance, process, and legal interpretation belong to your compliance function, and this page is not legal advice.

Frequently asked questions
NIS2 is a directive; what do we actually comply with?

Your member state’s transposition of it, which sets the entity classification and enforcement detail. The risk-management substance, including supply chain and vulnerability duties, is common across the EU, and that is the layer this platform equips.

Does NIS2 require SBOMs?

Not by that name, but supply-chain security measures are expected to be state of the art, and component-level visibility is rapidly becoming exactly that. An SBOM practice is the concrete form supervisors understand.

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