Named as critical infrastructure, holding call and location data attackers actively target.
Telecoms operators are directly in scope for NIS2 and the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill as designated essential services, while also holding call records, location data and billing information that make them a constant target. A recent CNIL fine against a major telecom operator for weak security controls following a breach shows regulators are watching this sector closely.
Five questions telecommunications 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 produce evidence of 24-hour incident notification readiness if a regulator tested it tomorrow?”
See how — GRC Automation“Do your network equipment and managed service providers meet the security bar NIS2 expects of you?”
See how — Third-Party Risk Management“Is customer call and location data ever finding its way into AI tools your support teams use?”
See how — AI Data Leak Protection“When did an independent team last try to breach your customer-facing billing and account systems?”
See how — Penetration Testing“If a data subject asked what call data you hold on them, could you answer within the statutory window?”
See how — DPO as a ServiceQuestions we get asked
The ones this page is built around are NIS2, UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill, GDPR and CAF 4.0. Praeferre monitors all of them from a single engine, alongside anything else on the frameworks list and your own internal policies, so you are not running a separate programme per regulation.
Usually not in intent but in evidence. The questions above are the ones that tend to cause a pause — for example: “Could you produce evidence of 24-hour incident notification readiness if a regulator tested it tomorrow?” Closing that kind of gap, and being able to show it is closed, is what the platform is for.
Most often GRC Automation, Third-Party Risk Management, AI Data Leak Protection, Penetration Testing and DPO as a Service — the modules the questions above map to. They share one data model and one dashboard, so evidence gathered for one framework counts towards the others.
Yes. Custom and internal frameworks are modelled in the same engine as the statutory ones, so an internal standard, a contractual commitment to a customer or a sector code of practice is monitored and evidenced the same way.
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A short discovery call is enough to map which of these questions are already answered — and which aren't.