NIS2 Impl. — Regulation Overview

26 sections · 328 audit questions · every article, annex and clause · v2024-10-17

This page lists every regulatory leaf of NIS2 Impl. in the order it appears in the regulation — each article, annex and clause. The audit checklist treats every leaf as a separate audit row, including the permissive ones.

Index of regulatory leaves

Click a row's citation to jump to it. The audit-question count shows how many auditable rows the checklist generates from that leaf (zero means the leaf is informational only).

Citation Kind Title Audit questions
Annex §1 Annex Policy on the security of network and information systems (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(a)) 18
Annex §2 Annex Risk management policy (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(a)) 21
Annex §3 Annex Incident handling (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)) 34
Annex §4 Annex Business continuity and crisis management (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(c)) 16
Annex §5 Annex Supply chain security (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(d)) 11
Annex §6 Annex Security in network and information systems acquisition, development and maintenance (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)) 67
Annex §7 Annex Policies and procedures to assess the effectiveness of cybersecurity risk-management measures (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(f)) 3
Annex §8 Annex Basic cyber hygiene practices and security training (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(g)) 8
Annex §9 Annex Cryptography (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(h)) 5
Annex §10 Annex Human resources security (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)) 13
Annex §11 Annex Access control (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i) and (j)) 41
Annex §12 Annex Asset management (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)) 20
Annex §13 Annex Environmental and physical security (NIS2 Art. 21(2)(c), (e) and (i)) 19
Article 2 Article Technical and methodological requirements 2
Article 3 Article Significant incidents 10
Article 4 Article Recurring incidents 1
Article 5 Article Significant incidents with regard to DNS service providers 3
Article 6 Article Significant incidents with regard to TLD name registries 3
Article 7 Article Significant incidents with regard to cloud computing service providers 4
Article 8 Article Significant incidents with regard to data centre service providers 4
Article 9 Article Significant incidents with regard to content delivery network providers 4
Article 10 Article Significant incidents with regard to managed service providers and managed security service providers 4
Article 11 Article Significant incidents with regard to providers of online marketplaces 4
Article 12 Article Significant incidents with regard to providers of online search engines 4
Article 13 Article Significant incidents with regard to providers of social networking services platforms 4
Article 14 Article Significant incidents with regard to trust service providers 5

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The Compliance Matrix is the verification document — every paragraph in scope on one PDF. The audit checklist bundle is the per-question working document (328 questions, 5 artefact formats).