No One Is Above the Line: How NIS2 and DORA Made the Cybersecurity Poverty Line Everyone’s Problem

Europe's regulators have quietly redrawn the cybersecurity poverty line - the gap between the few organisations that can run security as a system and the millions that have the tools but not the capability to make them work. Under NIS2 and DORA, that gap is no longer a social problem; it's a legal one, and it runs straight through your supply chain. When an under-resourced supplier or ICT provider sits below the line, you inherit both the breach and the regulatory exposure  and, increasingly, your board inherits personal liability for it. This session examines how MDR and an agentic SOC scale security operations across 40,000 organizations, and why the harder, unsolved problem is scaling strategy and governance. That's the gap Sophos CISO Advantage is built to close: scaling the judgment of a world-class CISO, continuous control validation, and regulator-ready metrics to organisations with or without a CISO, so they can both deliver their security strategy and prove it, and lift their whole ecosystem above the line.