NIS2
Real-time visibility, encryption enforcement, and incident response readiness
Echo helps fulfill NIS2’s core expectations around cyber hygiene and operational control by maintaining a continuous link to each device – regardless of operating system, network state, or user behavior.
With Echo:
- You always know which devices are active, inactive, offline or non-compliant – across your entire fleet.
- Encryption (e.g. BitLocker) is automatically monitored, and can be enforced or restored remotely.
- Geo-location helps identify suspicious behavior and support faster containment.
- Devices that go "dark" (e.g. due to manipulation, factory reset or OS change) still report back through BIOS-level persistence.This ensures your cyber risk posture is always transparent, traceable, and aligned with NIS2 requirements – even during incidents.
Want a deeper dive into NIS2 compliance?
Our whitepaper “Achieving NIS2 Compliance with Echo” shows how Echo helps organisations stay compliant — even when devices are reset, reinstalled, or offline.
Discover how BIOS-level control enables:
- Continuous encryption enforcement
- 24/7 compliance monitoring
- Instant incident response
- Business continuity you can trust.
DORA
Operational resilience, ICT risk management, and continuous control enforcement
DORA places high demands on financial and essential service organizations to manage ICT risk at the asset level.
Echo supports this by:
- Providing a live inventory of all endpoint hardware across your estate – including laptops, desktops, phones, and tablets.
- Continuously assessing the health and status of each device, including patch levels, security software, encryption, and configuration.
- Detecting and alerting on control failures in real-time – even when devices are offline or outside the corporate network.
- Generating historical logs and compliance trends that support scenario testing and resilience assessments.With Echo, compliance becomes embedded into daily operations, making ICT risk measurable, manageable, and auditable.
GDPR
Encryption proof, location tracking, and device-level data protection
Echo helps demonstrate and maintain GDPR compliance through verifiable control of data-bearing devices.
Specifically:
- Echo confirms whether disk encryption (e.g. BitLocker or FileVault) is active and functioning as required.
- Location tracking allows for documentation of where data-responsible devices are located and used.
- Unauthorized device behavior (such as OS downgrade or encryption deactivation) can be detected and acted upon immediately.
- Echo logs every change and action – creating a full audit trail for Data Protection Officers (DPOs) and compliance leads.This reduces the risk of data loss and ensures better readiness in case of inspection or breach notification obligations.
CSRD / ESG
(GHG Protocol)
CO₂ tracking per device, lifecycle optimization, and ESG reporting
- With CSRD and ESG expectations growing, Echo helps quantify and reduce the environmental impact of your device fleet.
- Echo calculates CO₂ emissions per device, based on manufacturer data, usage patterns, and device lifecycle.
- You can identify underutilized or over-aged hardware and optimize refresh cycles to reduce waste and cost.
- Echo supports reporting aligned with the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol – Scope 2 and Scope 3.
- All data can be exported to ESG reports or integrated directly into sustainability dashboards.
The result: reliable, measurable, and compliant ESG reporting – backed by data that’s trusted, live and hardware-based.
ISO 27001 / ISO 27005
Device classification, control monitoring, and audit-ready documentation
Echo supports your Information Security Management System (ISMS) by giving you full insight into every IT asset – and the controls applied to it.
Key capabilities:
- Classify devices based on sensitivity, ownership, location, or risk level.
- Monitor whether essential controls – such as antivirus, encryption, and patching – are present and functioning.
- Get alerts when controls decay, fail, or are removed.
- Maintain a full device-level documentation trail that aligns with Annex A controls and ISO risk assessment requirements.Echo helps your organization move from manual compliance tracking to automated, live reporting – reducing workload and audit complexity.
Local audit requirements
Audit trails, compliance logs, and real-time endpoint reporting
Echo ensures you are always ready to meet local audit and documentation requirements – with no surprises.
Here’s how:
- Every device is continuously monitored, and changes in configuration, status or control are logged in real-time.
- You have full visibility into whether a device is encrypted, patched, and running approved security software – even if it hasn’t been online recently.
- Historical logs and reports are available instantly and exportable in standard formats.
- You can validate asset ownership, location, and compliance status across departments and units.This makes it easy to respond to internal or external audits, and improves transparency across IT, compliance, and finance.
Frequently asked
questions
Compliance frameworks and how Echo supports them