Energy, water and transport keep the country running — and regulators now treat their supply chains as a national security question, not just an IT one.
Operators in energy, water, transport and digital infrastructure are named directly as essential services under both the EU's NIS2 Directive and the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, with the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework as the yardstick regulators increasingly expect them to meet. These environments blend operational technology with corporate IT, hold significant volumes of customer and citizen data, and face a supply chain risk that goes further than any other sector — a compromised supplier here doesn't just leak data, it can affect the physical services people depend on every day.
Five questions critical national infrastructure (cni) teams rarely have a clean answer to
If any of these make you pause, that pause is the gap Praeferre exists to close.
“Could you evidence CAF 4.0 alignment across every objective if a regulator inspected tomorrow, not just governance?”
See how — GRC Automation“Do you actually know which of your OT and ICS suppliers could disrupt service delivery if they were compromised?”
See how — Third-Party Risk Management“Are control room staff or field engineers pasting operational data into AI tools nobody has risk-assessed?”
See how — AI Data Leak Protection“Has your operational technology environment ever been tested by someone actively trying to breach it, not just your corporate network?”
See how — Penetration Testing“If you're designated a critical supplier under the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, who owns proving it — today, not eventually?”
See how — DPO as a ServiceSee what Praeferre would surface in your environment
A short discovery call is enough to map which of these questions are already answered — and which aren't.