The UK’s cyber security law for essential services and the organisations that supply them.
CS&R Bill support that brings your organisation into compliance and towards resilience.
We bring your organisation into Cyber Security and Resilience (CS&R) Bill compliance by combining our specialist advisory practice with your operational context and business goals.
You work with a dedicated Technical Account Manager backed by specialists who are experts in regulatory compliance.
Our advice is tailored to your environment and business needs. We don’t sell a GRC platform.
If a competent authority reads the CS&R Bill more strictly than the law actually requires, we will help you make your case.
We map your existing NIS2 controls against the CS&R Act and focus only on the gaps specific to the UK requirements.
We translate the Bill’s duties into controls that are proportionate and sized to your resources, so you meet the regulator’s expectations without unnecessary overhead.
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill applies to operators of essential services, digital service providers, and organisations that support critical national infrastructure. This can include managed service providers and technology supply chain organisations.
Organisations already subject to the NIS Regulations remain in scope with expanded obligations. Foreign entities providing services in the UK are also included.
Even if you’re outside the categories of affected organisations today, we recommend assessing your exposure to the CS&R now. Additional sectors may come into scope through secondary legislation.
The Bill covers cyber risk management, operational resilience, incident reporting, supply chain security, governance, and third-party assurance, closely mirroring NIS2.
Three areas are of particular importance:
Significant incidents require an initial notification within 24 hours and a full report within 72 hours, sent to the regulator and the NCSC at the same time. This includes incidents that could cause major disruption, even if no damage has yet occurred.
Managed service providers are in scope for the first time, and regulators can designate individual suppliers as “critical suppliers” if their failure could disrupt essential services, regardless of where those suppliers are based.
Regulators will have stronger powers to investigate and enforce compliance, with tougher penalties than under the existing NIS Regulations.
Compliance is assessed by the relevant regulator for each sector, such as the Information Commission for managed service providers and Ofcom for data centres, and regulators can recover their costs from the organisations they oversee.
Non-compliance comes with fines of up to £10 million or 2% of global turnover (whichever is higher) for standard breaches, rising to £17 million or 4% of global turnover for serious breaches.
Scope and applicability assessments.
Readiness reviews against anticipated requirements.
Gap analysis against existing NIS and NIS2 programmes.
Incident response and reporting maturity assessments.
Supply chain assurance programme development.
Regulatory preparedness planning.
We determine whether the CS&R Bill applies to you and in what capacity, then baseline your current controls against those required by the Bill. If you’re already working towards NIS2 compliance, we identify where your existing controls can be carried across and where gaps remain.
We turn your CS&R Bill gaps into a prioritised plan that is tailored to your organisation.
We help you put governance, policies, and controls in place, with a particular focus on the reporting process and the supply chain assurance that the CS&R Bill expects.
We test whether your controls and reporting would actually hold up under pressure, review your evidence, and fix any remaining gaps to make sure you can both comply with the new requirements and prove that compliance to the regulator.
| Framework | Type | Certificate | Jurisdiction | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CS&R Bill | Legal obligation | UK | NIS2 | |
| DORA | Legal obligation | EU financial entities | NIS2, ISO 27001 | |
| ISO 27001 | Voluntary certification | Universal | SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, DORA |
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| NIS2 | Legal obligation | EU member states | DORA, CS&R Bill |
Should your organisation need to comply with more than one regulatory testing framework at the same time, alongside the Cyber Security and Resilience Act, we also offer services under ISO 27001, DORA and NIS2.
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