The multilingual guide to NIS2 compliance

NIS2 expands the scope of essential and important entities and introduces stricter supervisory measures.

Identify which annex your organisation falls under and map supervisory authorities per market.

The directive distinguishes between essential entities (such as energy, transport, banking, and healthcare) and important entities (including digital infrastructure, research, and manufacturing). Each category faces different reporting obligations, yet both must implement baseline risk management measures and incident response processes.

Supervisory authorities will expect evidence of your security posture, governance structure, and ability to collaborate across borders. Document which authority covers each market and establish a single owner responsible for maintaining these relationships.

• Confirm your entity classification
• List national authorities per region
• Document reporting obligations

Define accountable owners for risk management, incident response, and supply-chain security. NIS2 places the board under direct responsibility, so executive awareness and training are mandatory.

Set up cross-functional steering with marketing to ensure public communications match regulatory language. Your incident templates must be available in every market language within 24 hours of an event.

Governance should include a multilingual content strategy: map which mandatory notices require translation, who approves them, and how local offices escalate emerging threats to headquarters.

Translate mandatory disclosures and customer-facing notices with native reviewers. Glossary control is crucial—terminology must remain consistent across legal, security, and marketing outputs.

Track approval trails so authorities can audit your localisation quality. Maintain a defensible audit log that proves when a statement was created, who reviewed it, which changes were made, and when it was published.

Use translation memories and quality checks tailored for cybersecurity language. This reduces turnaround time while safeguarding accuracy in every market.

Risk management under NIS2 requires documented security measures across network monitoring, access control, encryption, and vulnerability handling.

Implement continuous monitoring that alerts stakeholders within minutes and triages incidents according to the directive's 24/72 hour reporting windows.

Evidence collection should be automated where possible. Integrate your SIEM, ticketing, and compliance platforms so your team can package regulator-ready proof without recreating artefacts.

• Baseline controls against Annex I and II
• Maintain incident response playbooks per market
• Automate evidence snapshots for critical systems

Supervisory authorities can request documentation, perform audits, and issue binding instructions. Establish a proactive communications plan to stay ahead of requests.

Align your annual reporting, risk assessments, and crisis communication drills with the expectations of each national authority.

Document how senior management is briefed on cybersecurity risk, including KPIs, investment plans, and the financial impact of non-compliance.

• Schedule quarterly regulator briefings
• Centralise audit-ready documentation
• Track management approval of NIS2 investment roadmap