Translations:Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2-RL)/125/en

The company NisExperts AG is an IT service provider based in Styria, employing 66 staff members and recording an annual balance sheet total of nine million euros. NisExperts AG operates several data centers that host the IT infrastructure for multiple Austrian hospitals and the control system of a major Styrian network operator. On Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., the Security Operations Center (SOC) of NisExperts AG detects an unusually high number of requests targeting the firewalls of one of its data centers. Upon analysis, it is determined that the incident involves a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack targeting a core platform of the company.