Work Package Title: Remote Cybersecurity Advisory Services – European Enterprise & Critical Infrastructure
Location of Delivery: United Kingdom (Remote Delivery to EU Member States)
Regulatory Frameworks & Standards: EU NIS 2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555 / Commission Implementing Regulation 2024/2690), Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA / Regulation (EU) 2022/2554), EU GDPR (Data Sovereignty & Cross-Border Controls).
The European cybersecurity regulatory landscape has transitioned from preparation to active enforcement. With the NIS 2 Directive fully transposed across Member States and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) rigorously enforced by European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs), companies failing to prove digital operational resilience face severe administrative penalties and board-level liability.
The objective of this Work Package is to deliver specialized, remote Virtual CISO (vCISO), Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), and Security Architecture advisory services from the United Kingdom to "Essential" and "Important" entities operating within the European Union. Delivered entirely via secure remote channels, this engagement bridges the gap between complex EU statutory mandates and highly secure, zero-trust cloud architectures.
NIS 2 Article 21 Risk-Management Audit: Evaluating and structuring the Client’s technical controls against the mandatory pillars of NIS 2 and its implementing regulations, covering supply-chain security, vulnerability handling, and cryptographic policy.
DORA Five-Pillar Compliance Framework: For financial entities and their critical ICT third-party providers, aligning the digital estate with DORA mandates: ICT Risk Management, Incident Reporting, Operational Resilience Testing, Third-Party Risk, and Threat Intelligence Sharing.
Board Accountability & Governance Training: Conducting mandatory remote briefings for the management body to establish documented oversight, satisfying statutory requirements for direct executive liability under both NIS 2 and DORA.
EU Data Sovereignty and GDPR Engineering: Auditing multi-cloud landing zones (AWS, Azure, GCP) to ensure processing paths, identity metadata, and security log aggregation pools reside strictly within EEA geographical borders.
Zero-Trust Access (ZTNA) Design: Engineering granular conditional access frameworks and phishing-resistant Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) architectures to neutralize cross-border administrative risks and retire exposed legacy VPN networks.
Control vs. Data Plane Isolation: Crafting defensive blueprints that isolate central cloud infrastructure management panels from localized operational data environments.
Multi-Tier Mandatory Incident Reporting: Configuring local technical detection systems to support rapid legal triage, ensuring compliance with the strict NIS 2 timeline (24-hour Early Warning, 72-hour Initial Notification) and DORA major incident reporting streams.
ICT Third-Party Register of Information (RoI): Structuring and validating the complex contractual dependency mappings required under DORA, evaluating concentration risk down to the subcontractor layer.
The project proceeds through a standard 12-week design and verification sprint, optimized for cross-border delivery and asynchronous evidence gathering:
1.Discovery & Local Transposition Assessment:Weeks 1–3.
Establish a secure, zero-knowledge virtual environment for document sharing. Map the client’s legal entity footprint against specific national transpositions (e.g., Germany’s NIS2UmsuCG or Italy’s Decree 138/2024). Deliver the EU Cyber Regulatory Gap Report.
2.Sovereign Architecture & Identity Sprints:Weeks 4–7.
Review platform configurations via read-only channels. Guide internal engineering squads through zero-trust access implementation, cloud micro-segmentation, and EU-localized key management (HSM) setups.
3.Third-Party Risk & Incident Playbook Engineering:Weeks 8–10.
Review and structure the ICT Third-Party Register of Information. Draft custom Incident Response Playbooks embedded with pre-approved templates for national CSIRT portals. Facilitate a remote crisis simulation workshop.
4.Audit Readiness & Board Handover:Weeks 11–12.
Conduct a comprehensive mock regulatory audit to ensure the organization is audit-ready. Deliver the final Enterprise Security Architecture Blueprint and lead a virtual compliance handover session for the Board of Directors.
Given the strict privacy mandates governing EU entities, the following cross-border engagement protocols are non-negotiable:
EEA Data Isolation: The Advisor will never download, copy, transfer, or store live client production data, operational metadata, or employee PII outside the geographical boundaries of the European Economic Area (EEA).
Zero Credentials Collection: The advisor will never request production administrative credentials or API root keys. Configuration audits are conducted using read-only screen-shares or static exports of infrastructure-as-code files.
Secure Communications: All virtual workshops, design reviews, and text channels are handled via secure platforms configured with enterprise-grade encryption.
The Client will assign a dedicated compliance or project coordinator to streamline access to engineering stakeholders and internal document libraries.
The Client will provide localized, sanitized configuration files (e.g., IAM policies, infrastructure-as-code manifests) within 5 business days of request to prevent schedule slippage.
This package covers security architecture design, strategic advisory, and GRC validation; hands-on code development, software purchasing, and physical deployment of software are explicitly excluded.
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