In a critical situation, this means that the SOC tackles the incident while, simultaneously, an “NIS2 task force” tries to process information from tickets, emails, and ad-hoc chats so that it fits into a form. The result is duplicated work, loss of information, and reports that fill pages but reveal little about how well detection and response actually work.
In a cloud SaaS environment, a different approach is possible: Instead of treating NIS2 reporting as a separate document project, a modern DevSecOps-based SOC is built, so that all security-relevant signals converge in one place from the outset: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, applications, IdP, and IAM.
The rules governing how this data is correlated, enriched, and transformed into incidents are defined and versioned as code. Threat detection and response logic, thresholds, and playbooks reside in the repository and are deployed via pipelines, just like application code. This allows for the automation of large portions of traditional SOC work: Raw logs are transformed into consistent, contextualized incidents without requiring manual copying and pasting of text snippets.
