The problem nobody wants to deal with Late 2024, the EU's NIS2 directive started biting. Thousands of mid-sized European companies that never thought of themselves as "critical infrastructure" suddenly found themselves in scope: manufacturers, logistics providers, MSPs, mid-tier SaaS vendors. The directive itself is broad, the national transpositions vary, but the practical question on the ground is the same everywhere: where do we even start? If you're a 60-person Belgian manufacturer, you don't have a CISO. You probably don't have a dedicated security analyst either. You have an IT manager already wearing three hats, and now they need to deliver a risk assessment, an incident response plan, and a board-level reporting framework — against a deadline that has already passed in some Member States. The big consultancies will gladly sell you a six-figure engagement. The big GRC platforms (OneTrust, ServiceNow IRM and friends) are priced for enterprise procurement teams, not SMEs.…