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NIS2 & DORA: What EU Regulators Now Expect From Your Logs

A practical, vendor-neutral guide to meeting the five requirements regulators now expect of your logs—and an opportunity to turn compliance into an operational advantage.

 
 
 
 
 
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NIS2 & DORA: What EU Regulators Now Expect From Your Logs
 
Retention, integrity, traceability, access control, incident reporting

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Two pieces of European legislation, NIS2 and DORA, now define what you must demonstrate about your IT systems: retention, integrity, traceability, access control, and the ability to report an incident within hours. This guide translates those obligations into concrete actions for IT operations teams, without legal jargon or a sales pitch.

What you’ll learn

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Which regulation applies to you, NIS2 or DORA

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Why “being outside the EU” may not exempt you

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The five concrete requirements your logs must meet and why they’re not technology-specific

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How to meet the 4-24-72-hour reporting deadlines, stress-free

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How to verify whether the “European hosting” promise really protects you from the US CLOUD Act

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A ready-to-use 6-step action plan, plus a 12-question audit-readiness checklist

Inside the guide

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The regulatory landscape: NIS2 and DORA in plain terms
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What is now expected of your logs
03
Reporting obligations under each legislation—what and when?
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Log sovereignty: why your provider may still be subject to foreign legislation
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Compliance: from obligation to a real operational advantage
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Action plan for compliance and best practices, step by step

Why you should pay attention

Up to 160,000
organizations across the EU are subject to NIS2—what about yours?
€10M or 2%
At stake: penalties up to €10M or 2% of global annual revenue for essential entities.
4 hours
to notify a major incident under DORA, applicable since Jan 17, 2025.
Best practices
Acquiring log management capabilities rooted in the latest best practices.
 

About Centreon Log Management

Centreon Log Management is a sovereign and open log management solution that speeds up incident diagnosis. It addresses NIS2 and DORA requirements through concrete capabilities: configurable retention, tamper-proof logs, role-based access control, and encryption.

Sovereign
Hosted in France on Outscale, within an end-to-end sovereign ecosystem (Mistral for AI, CrowdSec for security).
Open
Built natively on OpenTelemetry, an open standard that ensures reversibility and reduces dependence on proprietary technologies—no lock-in.
Economical
Billed on compressed storage volume only, for predictable fees.
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