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Critical Infrastructure Regulatory Compliance

The global compliance landscape is evolving.

Prepare for new and adapting critical infrastructure cyber security regulations to continue safe and compliant operations.

Identify your requirements — where and how you operate.

It can be challenging to get a firm grasp of complex web of existing and evolving security regulations, especially if you operate across industries, sectors, and geographic regions.

NCC Group collaborates with governments and regulatory bodies, leveraging our insights and expertise to empower decision-makers and enhance cyber rules and regulations worldwide, ensuring a safer and more secure world.

How you can achieve Critical Infrastructure Regulatory Compliance.

We assist critical infrastructure organizations worldwide, spanning various industries, in meeting their compliance requirements and regulatory deadlines.

Whether you’re a small, independent shop or a global powerhouse, maintaining your cyber security is key. Let NCC Group guide you in developing innovative compliance programs that respond to the demands of multiple regulatory frameworks. With our support, you’ll be primed to safely and seamlessly conduct business across industry sectors – and global locales.

These obligations arise from diverse global and regional frameworks and standards, each with its own level of complexity.

  • EU: Network Information Systems (NIS) 2 
  • UK: Network Information Systems (NIS) 
  • United States: NERC CIP 
  • Australia: Security of Critical Infrastructure Act (SOCI) 
  • ISA 62443 
  • NIST (CSF and 800-53)
  • UK: Telecommunications (Security) Act
  • EU: Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

Our experts are here to help prepare you for the new critical infrastructure regulations and on a global-scale if needed.

Reach out or learn more about our work with a UK Energy Infrastructure client and how we’ve prepared them for the NIS regulations.

Framework impacts by sector

Across the regulatory frameworks, the below captures the typical sectors that fall in scope:

Energy: supply, distribution, transmission and sale of electricity, gas, oil, heating/cooling, hydrogen, EV charging point operators

Air, rail, road and water transport (including shipping companies and port facilities)

Banking/finance: credit, trade, market and infrastructure

Health: healthcare providers, research laboratories, pharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturing

Water: drinking water suppliers and wastewater operators

Digital infrastructure and IT services: DNS, name registries, trust services, data centers, cloud computing, electronic communication services, managed services and managed security services

Public administration: (central, regions + local optional)

Space: ground-based infrastructure operators

Postal and courier services providers

Waste management

Chemical products: production and distribution

Food: distribution and production

Manufacturers: medical/diagnostic devices, computers, electronics, optics, machinery, motor vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers, other transport equipment

Digital providers: online marketplaces, search engines, social platforms

Research organizations

 

Stay ahead of critical infrastructure regulatory compliance.

Our assessment method follows a risk-based approach, defining an appropriate and prioritized program of activity for assessing cyber maturity and compliance within your business based upon identified threat actors specific to your industry and location.  

NCC Group’s Assessment will be tailored to your requirements by understanding the work that your business may already be undertaking and focusing on those areas where additional insight is required to ensure identification and management of risks within critical systems and recommended mitigations. 

Further reading on critical infrastructure security

Comply with pertinent (regional and/or sector specific) regulatory frameworks and improve your business’s overall security posture.

NCC Group experts can help you develop a customized, responsive compliance program that scales with your business.