NIS 2 Copilot for independent consultants
Turn the Article 21 risk-management measures into a delivery checklist clients can act on.
Why NIS 2 consultants use ISMS Copilot
- Determine essential-versus-important entity classification and what it changes for the client
- Translate the ten Article 21 risk-management measures into a concrete delivery checklist
- Stand up incident-reporting procedures aligned to the Article 23 24h / 72h / one-month timeline
- Reuse a structured engagement method across clients in scope
- Move faster through documentation so billable time goes to advisory work
- Map NIS 2 obligations onto a client's existing ISO 27001 controls to avoid duplicate work
NIS 2 delivery tooling
Scope and applicability assessment, including essential vs important classification
Article 21 risk-management measures broken into actionable controls
Incident reporting procedures and templates for the Article 23 timeline
Supply chain security assessment
Board-level accountability framework
Cross-mapping to ISO 27001 controls
Turning the Article 21 measures into a client delivery checklist
Article 21 lists ten risk-management measures — from risk analysis and incident handling to supply chain security, cryptography, and basic cyber hygiene — but it lists them as obligations, not as a project plan. The consultant's value is converting that list into something a client can execute against, scoped to whether they are an essential or an important entity, since that drives supervisory and enforcement intensity. ISMS Copilot does the translation work: each Article 21 measure becomes concrete deliverables and evidence, and the Article 23 reporting obligation becomes a procedure tied to its real deadlines — an early warning within 24 hours, a notification within 72 hours, and a final report within one month. You spend the engagement advising, not decomposing the directive from scratch every time.
Explore the NIS 2 Copilot →Qualify a prospect with the free NIS 2 checker
Before you scope an engagement, settle whether the prospect is even in scope: the free NIS 2 Applicability Checker runs the Article 2/3 essential-versus-important test deterministically, so a discovery call starts from a defensible classification rather than a guess. It is a triage input, not the delivery work itself.
Open the free NIS 2 Applicability Checker →Frequently Asked Questions
How does it handle essential vs important entity classification?
It works through the size and sector criteria that drive the determination and explains what changes for the client — primarily the intensity of supervision and enforcement — so the engagement scope is set correctly before delivery begins.
Does it cover the Article 23 reporting timeline?
Yes. It builds incident-reporting procedures aligned to the actual deadlines: an early warning within 24 hours, an incident notification within 72 hours, and a final report within one month of the notification.
Can it reuse my client's existing ISO 27001 work?
Yes. It cross-maps NIS 2 obligations to ISO 27001 controls so a client with an existing ISMS does not rebuild controls that already satisfy the Article 21 measures.
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