Evaluating Organization Security: User Stories of European Union NIS2 Directive

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Autori principali: Seeba, Mari, Valgre, Magnus, Matulevičius, Raimundas
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author Seeba, Mari
Valgre, Magnus
Matulevičius, Raimundas
author_facet Seeba, Mari
Valgre, Magnus
Matulevičius, Raimundas
contents The NIS2 directive requires EU Member States to ensure a consistently high level of cybersecurity by setting risk-management measures for essential and important entities. Evaluations are necessary to assess whether the required security level is met. This involves understanding the needs and goals of different personas defined by NIS2, who benefit from evaluation results. In this paper, we consider how NIS2 user stories support the evaluation of the level of information security in organizations. Using requirements elicitation principles, we extracted the legal requirements from NIS2 from our narrowed scope, identified six key personas and their goals, formulated user stories based on the gathered information, and validated the usability and relevance of the user stories with security evaluation instruments or methods we found from the literature. The defined user stories help to adjust existing instruments and methods of assessing the security level to comply with NIS2. On the other hand, user stories enable us to see the patterns related to security evaluation when developing new NIS2-compliant security evaluation methods to optimize the administrative burden of entities.
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spellingShingle Evaluating Organization Security: User Stories of European Union NIS2 Directive
Seeba, Mari
Valgre, Magnus
Matulevičius, Raimundas
Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
The NIS2 directive requires EU Member States to ensure a consistently high level of cybersecurity by setting risk-management measures for essential and important entities. Evaluations are necessary to assess whether the required security level is met. This involves understanding the needs and goals of different personas defined by NIS2, who benefit from evaluation results. In this paper, we consider how NIS2 user stories support the evaluation of the level of information security in organizations. Using requirements elicitation principles, we extracted the legal requirements from NIS2 from our narrowed scope, identified six key personas and their goals, formulated user stories based on the gathered information, and validated the usability and relevance of the user stories with security evaluation instruments or methods we found from the literature. The defined user stories help to adjust existing instruments and methods of assessing the security level to comply with NIS2. On the other hand, user stories enable us to see the patterns related to security evaluation when developing new NIS2-compliant security evaluation methods to optimize the administrative burden of entities.
title Evaluating Organization Security: User Stories of European Union NIS2 Directive
topic Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19222