How can ManageEngine support government organizations in meeting these standards?
With ManageEngine Log360 (SIEM), ministries, municipalities, provinces, water authorities, and other government organizations can start aligning with the principles of BIO2. See the key controls and how our solution helps in the table below.
Part 1 – Section 5Part 1 – Section 5: Information Security Management System (ISMS)
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 5.1: Scope of the management system – The entity includes at least the business processes and information systems critical to its services in the design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the ISMS. | Log360 - Centralised log collection, unified security monitoring, security and risk posture management. | Log360 collects and centralises logs from all monitored infrastructure, supporting continuous monitoring of the systems defined within the ISMS scope. |
| 5.2: Coherence of the management systems – The BIO is aligned with the Harmonized Structure (HS) to enable integration of different ISO management systems, avoiding duplication of work. | Log360 - 30+ pre-built compliance audit templates, compliance violation alerts. | Log360's pre-built compliance templates cover overlapping mandates and can be run together, supporting the integrated-management-system approach the BIO's Harmonized Structure alignment is intended to enable. |
Part 1 – Section 6Part 1 – Section 6: Risk Management
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 6.3–6.4: Risk identification and analysis – The entity determines valuable information resources, identifies relevant threats and vulnerabilities, and classifies risks by probability and impact. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management, UEBA, Vigil IQ TDIR, threat intelligence. | Log360's security and risk posture management module assesses weaknesses across monitored infrastructure; combined with UEBA and Vigil IQ, it surfaces anomalous behaviour patterns and indicators of compromise that inform both threat identification and risk classification. |
| 6.5: Risk treatment and selection of controls – Following risk analysis, appropriate controls are selected. The entity proves set-up, existence, and operation of controls through audits, pen tests, red team tests, and self-assessments. | Log360 - Audit-ready compliance reports, automated alert workflows, incident management console. | Log360's audit-ready reports and incident management console provide exportable, timestamped records of monitoring activities and security events, satisfying the operational proof requirement for network and log-based controls. |
Part 1 – Section 7 Part 1 – Section 7: Statement of Applicability (SoA)
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 7: Statement of Applicability – The entity draws up a SoA laying down selected controls and explaining which have been implemented. BIO government measures must be explicitly included. Deviations go into an SoA Exceptions annex. | Log360 - 30+ pre-built compliance audit templates, compliance violation alerts, scheduled report export. | Log360's compliance templates map log-based controls to regulatory requirements; scheduled exports and violation alerts support the documentation of both implemented controls and any gaps requiring SoA exception entries. |
Part 1 – Section 8–9Part 1 – Sections 8–9: Monitoring, Continual Improvement, and Transparency
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 8: Monitoring and continual improvement – The entity continuously develops and improves by applying the ISMS. It keeps the management system current through internal audits, management reviews, and updated documentation. | Log360 - Continuous log monitoring, real-time correlation engine, security and risk posture management, audit-ready reports. | Log360 provides continuous log monitoring across the infrastructure with real-time correlation and anomaly detection, producing the ongoing evidence base that supports both internal audits and iterative control improvement. |
| 9: Transparency and accountability – Every government organisation accounts for the information security status to regulatory authorities via accountability frameworks. Information security is a standard component of the annual report. | Log360 - 30+ pre-built compliance audit templates, scheduled report delivery, compliance violation alerts. | Log360's compliance templates and scheduled delivery capabilities allow the organisation to produce audit-ready outputs aligned to the applicable accountability frameworks on a recurring basis. |
Part 2 – Organisational Controls (5.xx) Part 2 – Organisational Controls (5.xx)
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 5.01.01: The entity shall have an information security policy adopted by its administration, covering strategic principles, organisation of the information security function, responsibilities, reliability requirements, frequency of policy evaluation, and promotion of security awareness. | Log360 - Policy-based compliance templates, automated compliance violation alerts, scheduled reporting. | Log360's compliance templates translate policy requirements into detection and alerting rules, generating violation alerts when deviations occur and scheduled reports that demonstrate ongoing policy effectiveness to the board. |
| 5.01.02: The information security policy shall be reviewed at least annually, aligned with governance and Planning & Control (P&C) cycles and external developments. | Log360 - Scheduled compliance report delivery, compliance violation alerts. | Log360 supports scheduled, recurring report generation that aligns with P&C cycles, providing the comparison data needed to identify changes in the control environment and inform annual policy reviews. Compliance violation alerts from Log360 surface changes in the threat or regulatory landscape that may trigger an earlier policy update. |
| 5.02.02: A CISO shall be appointed who is authorised to provide independent advice and report on information security to the board and/or the supervisory authority. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management, executive dashboards, scheduled report delivery. | Log360 provides the CISO with dashboards and scheduled reports on the organisation's security posture, supplying the evidence base for independent board reporting. |
| 5.04.01: The board and employees shall regularly take courses to recognise and prevent cybersecurity risks and to know what to do in the event of an information security incident. Board members shall demonstrate knowledge and skills to assess the impact of information security risks. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management, risk posture reports, incident management console. | Log360's risk posture reports and incident management console provide the concrete metrics and incident history that can be used to structure and assess board-level cybersecurity training. This measure is primarily a personnel and training obligation; the software contribution is partial—Log360 supplies the risk data and incident records that underpin training content, but the training itself must be managed through a separate learning management process. |
| 5.08.01: For new information systems and for significant changes to existing systems, an explicit risk assessment based on an established risk management methodology shall be performed to identify and adequately control risks and determine security requirements. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management, vulnerability assessment integration, threat intelligence. | Log360's security and risk posture management module extends this to network-, log-, and infrastructure-level risks, providing a consolidated view of exposures introduced by system changes. |
| 5.09.01: An inventory of assets relevant to information processing, including OT, remote assets, cloud environments, and assets regularly connected to the network but not under the entity's control, shall be in place and verified periodically. | Log360 - Centralised log collection from on-premises, cloud, and OT sources, asset discovery. | Log360 collects logs from a broad range of sources—including cloud environments and OT—providing visibility into the asset landscape beyond the identity layer. This covers the inventorying requirement for cloud-connected and network-attached assets; physical OT asset inventory without network connectivity is outside the scope of Log360 and must be managed separately. |
| 5.12.01: Information in all information systems shall be classified with an explicit risk assessment, applying a defined impact classification methodology. | Log360 - Data discovery and classification, file integrity monitoring, sensitive data risk classification. | Log360's integrated component discovers and classifies sensitive data across monitored file systems and databases, applying risk-based classification policies that align with an impact classification methodology. This addresses the software-enforceable portion of the requirement; the formal classification methodology and the policy governing classification decisions must be defined at the organisational level. |
| 5.14.01: Internet-facing information systems and email communications shall comply at all times with the mandatory standards published on the Forum Standaardisatie website and the Cybersecurity Act. Compliance shall be monitored using measurements from internet.nl. | Log360 - Continuous network monitoring, compliance violation alerts, real-time correlation. | Log360 continuously monitors network traffic and system configurations, generating real-time alerts when anomalies or non-compliant states are detected across internet-facing systems. The specific internet.nl measurement tooling is an external Dutch government service; Log360 complements it by providing continuous internal monitoring and alerting on deviations between measurement cycles. |
| 5.14.02: All components shall be configured to ensure optimal security without compromising service functionality. The entity shall use at minimum publicly trusted OV certificates for public web traffic and for sensitive internal web traffic. | Log360 - Certificate and configuration compliance monitoring, real-time alerts on configuration changes, security and risk posture management. | Log360 monitors configuration states across the managed infrastructure and alerts on changes that deviate from the established secure baseline, including certificate-related events. Hardening and certificate deployment are configuration management tasks that must be performed through dedicated tools; Log360's role is continuous monitoring and alerting on the resulting state. |
| 5.14.04: Up-to-date records shall be kept of all internet-facing information systems, web applications, IP addresses, and APIs. | Log360 - Centralised log collection, asset discovery, network monitoring. | Log360's log collection and network monitoring capabilities provide continuous visibility into active internet-facing systems and connections, supporting the maintenance of an up-to-date asset record. The authoritative register itself must be maintained in a dedicated asset management or CMDB system; Log360 provides the monitoring layer that helps detect undocumented systems. |
| 5.15.01: Access to a trusted zone shall be permitted only from authenticated devices or from software operating within a secure enclave. | Log360 - Logon monitoring, real-time alerts on access from unenrolled or anomalous devices. | Log360 monitors logon activity and raises alerts when access originates from devices or locations outside defined trust parameters, providing continuous enforcement verification. |
| 5.16.02: The use of group accounts shall not be permitted unless motivated, recorded, and coordinated with the CISO by the process owner. | Log360 - Alerts on shared or group account usage, privileged account monitoring. | Log360 can alert on activity from group accounts, supporting detection of unapproved shared-account usage and providing the audit trail needed to demonstrate coordination with the CISO. |
| 5.17.01: The entity shall apply multi-factor authentication (MFA) at least for primary logins on the digital work environment, for accounts providing access to internet-facing services, for accounts with administrative privileges, and in other situations indicated by risk analysis. MFA shall be applied in passwordless or password + second factor forms. Use Cases for authentication data abuse shall be defined, monitored, and actioned. | Log360 - Logon monitoring, anomalous logon alerts, UEBA for authentication abuse detection. | Log360 monitors logon events across the environment and, via UEBA, detects authentication anomalies, such as logins from unusual locations or spikes in failed attempts, enabling the use case monitoring required by the measure. |
| 5.18.01: The creation of and modifications to accounts with special privileges shall be monitored. Unauthorised changes to privileged accounts qualify as security incidents and shall be recorded and handled accordingly. | Log360 - Real-time alerts on privileged account changes, incident management console, UEBA. | Log360 correlates these events with broader activity patterns; detected unauthorised changes can be escalated automatically through the incident management console, satisfying the incident recording and handling requirement. |
| 5.19.01: For requests for proposal where information or information systems are involved, information security requirements, including availability, integrity, and confidentiality, shall be part of the purchasing requirements, based on an explicit risk assessment. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management reports for infrastructure requirements. | Log360's risk posture reports provide the evidence base that informs the information security requirements to be included in purchasing specifications, particularly for logging, monitoring, and detection capabilities. The procurement documentation and risk assessment must be produced at the organisational level; Log360's contribution is providing the risk data that feeds those documents. |
| 5.20.01: The security requirements arising from the request for proposal shall be explicitly included in procurement contracts that involve information processing. | Log360 - Compliance audit reports, log archival for contract evidence. | Log360 provides the reporting and audit evidence needed to verify whether contracted security requirements are being met post-implementation. The contract drafting itself is a legal and procurement task; Log360 contributes by generating the ongoing evidence trail that demonstrates supplier compliance with contracted security obligations. |
| 5.20.03: The procurement contract shall require the supplier to demonstrate compliance with all specified requirements through independent third-party assessments, covering the full supply chain. The supplier shall demonstrate this annually. | Log360 - Compliance audit reports, log archival, third-party activity monitoring. | Log360 can ingest and archive logs from supplier-managed systems where network access is granted, providing independent monitoring evidence that supplements third-party audit reports. |
| 5.20.05: The parties shall agree that the supplier is transparent about vulnerabilities and information security incidents, including data leaks, enabling the entity to respond appropriately. | Log360 - Incident management console, real-time alerts, dark web monitoring for credential leaks. | Log360's incident management console enables the entity to record and track vulnerabilities and incidents reported by suppliers alongside internally detected events, maintaining a unified response timeline. The dark web monitoring capability proactively identifies credential leaks associated with the entity's domains before suppliers may report them, strengthening the response posture. |
| 5.21.02: The entity shall guarantee that security requirements imposed on the supplier apply equally and fully to the chain of subcontractors, unless requirements are not relevant to the nature of the subcontractor's services. | Log360 - Third-party activity monitoring, compliance reports covering outsourced services. | Log360 monitors activity from external accounts and generates compliance reports covering outsourced services, providing evidence that security requirements are enforced at each tier of the supply chain. |
| 5.21.04–5.21.05: During the contract term, the supplier shall communicate changes in the subcontractor chain and associated risks. The entity's risk analysis shall include specific vulnerabilities of direct suppliers and service providers, quality of products, and cybersecurity practices of their supply chain. | Log360 - Threat intelligence integration, dark web monitoring for supply chain credential leaks, security and risk posture management. | Log360's threat intelligence feeds and dark web monitoring provide the entity with proactive signals about supplier-linked vulnerabilities and credential exposures, informing supply chain risk analysis. Systematic supply chain risk analysis requires additional processes and tools beyond what Log360 provides alone. |
| 5.22.01: Based on supplier evidence, the process owner shall be responsible for annual review of the supplier's compliance with information security requirements, defining security risks, and taking mitigating measures. | Log360 - Compliance audit reports, scheduled compliance reporting, incident logs. | Log360's compliance reports and incident logs provide the evidence base for assessing whether the supplier's security requirements have been met across the review period. |
| 5.23.01: The entity shall establish and apply a policy to oversee the inventory, classification, selection, assessment, and management of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and termination of services. The policy shall be reviewed at least every three years. | Log360 - Cloud activity monitoring, CASB capabilities, cloud compliance reports. | Log360's Cloud Security Plus component and integrated CASB capabilities provide continuous monitoring of cloud service usage, enabling detection of shadow IT and generating compliance reports that support the required triennial policy review. |
| 5.24.01: In the event of major changes with a supplier, associated risks shall be assessed and suitable measures taken. All internal and external employees shall have access to a low-threshold notification desk for information security incidents. | Log360 - Incident management console, real-time alerts, centralised incident intake. | Log360's incident management console provides a centralised, accessible point for logging and tracking information security incidents reported by internal and external staff. |
| 5.24.02–5.24.03: The tasks and responsibilities of the notification desk shall be laid down in an incident reporting procedure. The process owner shall be responsible for resolving information security incidents. | Log360 - Incident management console, automated ticket assignment, incident workflow management, SOAR playbooks. | Log360's incident management console supports structured incident handling, assigning incidents to the appropriate process owner, tracking statuses, and recording resolution steps. SOAR playbooks automate first-response actions for defined incident types, ensuring the process owner receives context-enriched, pre-triaged tickets rather than raw alerts. |
| 5.24.04: On a monthly basis, the process owner shall report on the follow-up of information security incidents to the person with ultimate responsibility for operations. | Log360 - Scheduled monthly incident summary reports, incident management dashboard, compliance reporting. | Log360 can be configured to generate and deliver scheduled monthly reports summarising incident status, resolution times, and open items, providing the process owner with a ready-made report for operational escalation. The incident management dashboard provides a real-time view that can be shared with operational leadership between report cycles. |
| 5.24.07: The incident procedure shall state that security incidents are reported to the CSIRT within statutory time limits, that CSIRT notifications are received and included in risk treatment, and that PII principals are notified within statutory time. | Log360 - Real-time incident detection and alerting, incident management console, automated notification workflows, SOAR playbooks. | Log360 detects security incidents in real time and can trigger automated notification workflows—including integration with external ITSM or communication channels—to initiate statutory CSIRT reporting within required time frames. The incident management console tracks notification status and records CSIRT communications, supporting the requirement to incorporate CSIRT advisories into risk treatment. |
| 5.24.08: A Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) procedure shall be designed and published in accordance with the NCSC guideline or ISO/IEC 29147. CVD report information shall be included in the incident report. | Log360 - Incident management console, vulnerability intake and tracking, integration with vulnerability scanning tools. | Log360's incident management console can serve as the intake and tracking system for CVD reports, linking them to related security events and incorporating them into the incident record. The CVD policy and publication must be maintained at the organisational level; Log360 provides the operational tracking mechanism that ensures CVD information feeds into incident reporting. |
| 5.26.02: Information security incidents shall be dealt with via the incident management process, including reporting to regulatory authorities as required by legislation. | Log360 - Incident management console, automated incident workflows, compliance audit logs, SOAR playbooks. | Log360's incident management console provides a structured workflow for handling information security incidents, from detection through resolution, with automated routing and status tracking. Compliance audit logs record all incident-handling actions, and SOAR playbooks can be configured to initiate regulatory notification workflows for incident categories that trigger reporting obligations. |
| 5.27.01–5.27.02: Information security incidents shall be assessed for root causes, and improvements implemented to prevent recurrence. Incident analysis reports, including root causes and improvements, shall be shared with relevant partners. | Log360 - Incident Workbench forensic investigation, Zia Insights AI-generated incident timelines, root cause analysis, UEBA. | Log360's Incident Workbench provides forensic tools for root cause investigation, including process lineage visuals and MITRE ATT&CK mappings generated by Zia Insights, enabling the entity to identify the underlying cause of incidents and document improvement actions. Generated incident reports can be exported and shared with chain partners, satisfying the inter-organisational sharing requirement. |
| 5.28.01: The retention period for a suspected information security incident and all information required to analyse and resolve it shall be at least three years, including logging, solution records, and advice. | Log360 - Configurable log retention and archival, long-term log storage, compliance archiving. | Log360 supports configurable log retention periods across all collected log sources, with archival capabilities that preserve logs in compressed format for the required three-year minimum. Retention policies can be set per source type to ensure incident-related logs, correlation events, and response records are all retained for the full statutory period. |
| 5.30.01: Every year, the process owner shall test continuity plans for effectiveness, completeness, and current relevance with a view to improving them. | Log360 - Incident management console, post-incident analysis reports, scheduled compliance reporting. | Log360's incident records and post-incident analysis reports provide historical data on how the organisation has responded to actual disruptions, informing the annual review of continuity plan effectiveness. |
| 5.30.02: The process owner shall identify critical systems on the basis of the established risk management methodology and an explicit risk assessment, updating this overview at least every three years. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management, asset monitoring, compliance reports. | Log360's security and risk posture management module extends this view to the broader monitored infrastructure, providing the data needed to classify systems by criticality on a recurring basis. |
| 5.33.01: The process owner shall have included retention periods for all information and information systems in selection lists, in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, the Public Records Act, and privacy regulations. | Log360 - Configurable log retention policies per source, compliance-driven archival settings. | Log360 allows configurable retention policies at the source and log-type level, enabling alignment with Public Records Act requirements and privacy regulation retention schedules. The selection lists (retentielijsten) themselves are a records management document that must be maintained outside the product; Log360 enforces the technical retention parameters that translate those lists into operational controls. |
| 5.35.02: An established audit plan shall be in place, with annual decisions on which systems will undergo which type of security audit. | Log360 - Audit-ready compliance reports, 30+ pre-built templates, scheduled reporting. | Log360 provides scheduled, preconfigured audit reporting that can be aligned to an annual audit plan, delivering system-specific audit outputs on a defined timetable. The audit plan document itself is a governance artefact that must be maintained at the organisational level; Log360 supplies the technical audit evidence each audit type requires. |
| 5.36.01: Within the P&C cycle and as part of the PDCA cycle, reporting on information security shall take place under the coordination of the CISO. This shall result in an annual In Control Statement (ICS) covering the entity's entire information security system. | Log360 - 30+ compliance templates, scheduled report delivery, compliance violation alerts, incident management summary reports. | Log360 provides the operational security and monitoring evidence component, with compliance templates and violation reports giving the CISO a structured view of control effectiveness for inclusion in the annual statement. |
Part 2 – People Controls (6.xx)Part 2 – People Controls (6.xx)
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 6.08.01: All (internal and external) employees shall demonstrably have taken note of the notification procedure for information security incidents. | Log360 - Incident notification procedure enforcement via incident management console. | Log360's incident management console operationalises the procedure, ensuring staff can follow the notification path when needed. The formal acknowledgement mechanism itself must be configured as part of the organisation's onboarding process design. |
Part 2 – Physical Controls (7.xx)Part 2 – Physical Controls (7.xx)
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 7.01.02: Critical information or information systems shall never be accessible via a single secure zone. | Log360 - Network zone monitoring, real-time alerts on cross-zone access anomalies. | Log360 monitors network access patterns and alerts on anomalous cross-zone activity, detecting potential violations of zone-segregation policies. |
| 7.10.01: The removal instruction shall include that business-sensitive content has been irretrievably removed from reusable removable media that leaves the entity, and this shall be verified. | Log360 - USB and removable media activity monitoring, data exfiltration alerts, file activity tracking. | Log360 monitors USB and removable media usage across the environment, alerting on transfers of sensitive data to removable devices and generating audit records of media-access events. Log360 also tracks file activity to and from removable storage. The physical verification of wiping and the removal instruction itself are procedural obligations that must be managed outside the product. |
Part 2 – Technological Controls (8.xx)Part 2 – Technological Controls (8.xx)
| Clause | Functionality | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 8.01.01: Mobile equipment shall be set up so that business information is not stored on user devices as standard ('zero footprint'). If near-zero footprint is not achievable, mobile devices shall provide data encryption and access control. Remote deletion shall be possible on mobile equipment. | Log360 - Mobile device activity monitoring, access alerts from non-compliant devices. | Log360 monitors access events from mobile devices and raises alerts when access originates from devices outside the defined compliance baseline. |
| 8.02.01: The assigned or exercised special privileges shall be assessed at least on a quarterly basis in terms of their set-up, existence, and operation. | Log360 - Privileged user audit reports, privileged activity monitoring, scheduled audit report delivery. | Privileged user audit reports from Log360 provide the evidence of actual privilege usage needed to assess whether privileges are exercised appropriately, giving process owners the activity record that a quarterly privilege review depends on. |
| 8.03.01–8.03.02: Measures shall be in place to safeguard the physical and/or logical isolation of information of specific importance. Users shall only be able to view and process the information they need to perform their duties. | Log360 - Access controls, file permission monitoring, sensitive data isolation alerts. | Log360'monitors file and data access permissions, alerting on over-permissioned accounts or attempts to access sensitive data outside authorised scope. |
| 8.05.01: The granting of network access to external suppliers shall be preceded by a risk assessment to determine conditions and duration. A register shall be kept of how rights have been assigned. | Log360 - External account activity monitoring, network access alerts, audit trail of supplier access. | Log360 monitors all network access from external accounts and generates the access register through its continuous audit logging, alerting on access outside defined parameters. |
| 8.07.01–8.07.04: The downloading of files shall be controlled and restricted based on risk and need-to-use. Antimalware software shall always review all downloads. Users shall be informed about risks of surfing behaviour and clicking unknown links. Malware scans shall cover all environments, downloaded content, and files received via networks or storage media. | Log360 - Real-time threat detection, malware activity monitoring, threat intelligence, UEBA anomaly detection, file activity monitoring. | Log360's real-time threat detection and threat intelligence capabilities monitor download activity and file execution events across the infrastructure, detecting malware indicators and correlating them with known threat patterns. Log360 also monitors file access and transfers. Antimalware enforcement and user awareness programmes are endpoint security and training functions that require dedicated tools and processes beyond the scope of a SIEM solution. |
| 8.08.01–8.08.03: If the likelihood and expected damage of a vulnerability warning are both high, mitigating measures shall be taken as soon as possible but within one week at the latest. If installation within a week is not possible, mitigating measures shall be taken based on a risk assessment. | Log360 - Real-time vulnerability alerts, threat intelligence, security and risk posture management, incident management console. | Log360's threat intelligence integration surfaces high-severity vulnerability notifications in real time, and the incident management console provides the workflow for tracking and enforcing the one-week remediation deadline. Risk posture management reports identify affected systems, supporting the risk assessment required when immediate remediation is not possible. |
| 8.08.04–8.08.05: Information systems shall be checked for technical compliance with security standards and actual security risks through automated vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, or red team tests. Internet-facing systems shall be tested continuously where possible. Internet-facing systems shall have automated penetration testing at every new release or major update. All internet-facing systems shall be tested at least annually. | Log360 - Continuous security monitoring, vulnerability assessment integration, real-time alerts on internet-facing system changes, security and risk posture management. | Log360 provides continuous monitoring of internet-facing systems, detecting configuration changes and security deviations in real time. Log360 integrates with external vulnerability scanning tools to correlate scan findings with log data, and its security and risk posture management module maintains a current view of exposure. Automated penetration testing at release is a dedicated application security function; Log360 monitors the results and the system state but does not conduct the penetration tests themselves. |
| 8.13.01: There shall be a backup policy defining storage and protection requirements, with specific attention to protection against ransomware and preservation of backup integrity. | Log360 - Ransomware activity detection, file integrity monitoring, real-time alerts on backup-related anomalies. | Log360 detects ransomware attack patterns through its correlation engine and file integrity monitoring, alerting on mass file encryption events before backups themselves are compromised. |
| 8.13.02: The maximum permissible data loss and maximum recovery time following an incident shall have been determined based on an explicit risk assessment. | Log360 - Incident analysis reports, post-incident timelines to inform recovery time assessment. | Log360's post-incident analysis provides historical data on actual recovery timelines that can be used to validate or revise RTO/RPO targets. |
| 8.13.04: The recovery procedure shall be tested at least once a year or after a major change, to ensure proper functioning in emergencies. | Log360 - Post-recovery monitoring to verify system behaviour after restoration. | Log360 monitors system behaviour post-recovery to verify that restored systems operate within expected parameters and that no residual threats persist. |
| 8.15.01–8.15.06: Log entries shall contain at minimum: action, object, result, origin, actor, and timestamp. Log entries shall not contain data that could cause a security breach. A list of generated log files shall be maintained. Retention periods for log files and SIEM data shall be determined based on risk, accounting for long-dwell-time attack scenarios. Improper modification or deletion of log data shall be reported as an incident. The unchanged existence of log files shall be periodically verified by an independent official. | Log360 - Centralised log collection with structured event fields, log integrity monitoring, configurable retention policies, file integrity monitoring, real-time alerts on log tampering. | Log360 collects logs with mandatory structured fields—actor, timestamp, action, object, source—across all supported devices and applications, satisfying the log entry content requirement. Log integrity monitoring detects and alerts on unauthorised modification or deletion of log data, meeting the incident reporting trigger. Configurable retention policies can account for long-dwell-time scenarios, and Log360 maintains a list of active log sources and collection status. The independent verification step requires an organisational process; Log360 provides the technical means (scheduled integrity checks and reports) that an independent official can use to perform that verification. |
| 8.16.01–8.16.04: New threats identified through monitoring shall be shared with the designated CERT within the applicable legal framework. SIEM and SOC monitoring processes shall include clear rules about when to report an incident to responsible managers. The information processing environment shall be monitored using a detection and response solution enabling detection of attacks and timely treatment of non-conformities. Active network components shall include logging and log monitoring to detect and respond to anomalous events. | Log360 - Continuous SIEM monitoring, real-time correlation engine, Vigil IQ TDIR, automated incident escalation workflows, network device log collection, UEBA anomaly detection. | Log360 serves as the detection and response platform required by these measures, collecting logs from active network components and monitoring the environment continuously with correlation rules and UEBA. Vigil IQ automates threat detection and escalation workflows, enforcing the rules for when incidents are escalated to responsible managers. The CERT sharing obligation requires an organisational process; Log360's incident management console and SOAR playbooks can automate the notification workflow once reporting criteria are configured. |
| 8.18.01–8.18.02: Access to system utilities shall be restricted to authorised staff and only when strictly necessary. The use of system utilities shall be logged, and logging data shall remain available for investigation for six months. | Log360 - System utility access logging, six-month log retention, real-time privileged access alerts. | Log360 logs all access to system utilities and can be configured with a minimum six-month retention policy for that log category, satisfying the investigation availability requirement. |
| 8.19.01: The risk of installation by users of non-authorised software shall be controlled. | Log360 - Unauthorised software installation alerts, endpoint activity monitoring, UEBA. | Log360 monitors endpoint activity and can alert on software installation events detected outside approved change windows, providing detection coverage for attempts to install unauthorised software. |
| 8.20.01–8.20.02: Network components shall meet at least the confidentiality level of the network they are part of. Access to management interfaces of network components shall be separate from the user network as much as possible. | Log360 - Network component configuration monitoring, management interface access logging, real-time anomaly alerts. | Log360 monitors access to network management interfaces and alerts on access from the user network or from accounts outside the authorised management role set. |
| 8.21.01–8.21.04: At connection points with external or untrusted zones and because of network segmentation, measures shall have been taken to detect and mitigate potential attacks on availability. Detection tools shall monitor data traffic to and from the trusted environment for suspicious traffic. New threats identified shall be shared within government. When data are transmitted over wireless or wired connections outside the controlled area, data shall be encrypted. | Log360 - Network traffic monitoring, real-time correlation for perimeter threats, DDoS detection, threat intelligence, network zone anomaly alerts. | Log360 monitors data traffic at network zone boundaries using its correlation engine and threat intelligence, detecting indicators of availability attacks and suspicious traffic patterns in real time. Identified threats can be exported or escalated through integrations, supporting the inter-governmental sharing obligation. Encryption enforcement at network boundaries is a network infrastructure configuration task; Log360 monitors the resulting encrypted traffic state and alerts on unencrypted transmissions where policy is configured. |
| 8.22.01: Each segregated group shall have its own security level. | Log360 - Network segment activity monitoring, zone-level compliance reporting. | Log360 monitors activity within each network segment separately, allowing segment-specific alerting and compliance reporting aligned to each group's security level. |
| 8.24.01–8.24.02: The cryptography policy shall cover when cryptography is used, who is responsible for implementation and key management, which standards apply, how the level of protection is established, and how mutual policies are determined. Cryptographic controls shall be included in the asset inventory, with records of where they are used, who is responsible, and how they are updated. | Log360 - Certificate monitoring, cryptography configuration change alerts, asset inventory of monitored systems. | Log360 monitors the state of cryptographic configurations across monitored systems, alerting about certificate expirations, weak algorithm usage, and configuration changes. The cryptography policy document and key management processes must be maintained at the organisational level; Log360 provides the monitoring and alerting layer. |
| 8.24.04: The strength of cryptography shall be based on current recommendations of the NCSC and the AIVD Resilience Unit. | Log360 - Cryptographic configuration compliance monitoring, alerts on weak algorithm usage. | Log360 can be configured to alert on the detection of deprecated or weak cryptographic algorithms in network traffic and system configurations, enabling the entity to identify deviations from current NCSC/AIVD recommendations. The remediation of weak cryptography is a system configuration task; Log360 provides the detection and alerting coverage. |
| 8.27.01: Architectural principles such as 'security by design' and 'security by default' for the security design of information systems shall be adopted, documented, maintained, and applied for all activities involved in the development of information systems. | Log360 - Security and risk posture management, misconfiguration detection, real-time configuration compliance alerts. | Log360's misconfiguration detection and risk posture management continuously verify that systems remain in their intended secure state, alerting when configurations drift from the security-by-design baseline. |
| 8.29.01: Structured test methodologies shall be used for system acceptance testing, performed automatically where possible. Test results shall be recorded in a report. | Log360 - Pre-production monitoring validation, test environment log collection, compliance reports on system state pre/post-change. | Log360 can collect and compare logs from pre-production and production environments, providing compliance and security state reports that support acceptance test documentation. The test methodology and formal acceptance report must be produced by the development or change management process; Log360 contributes the security state evidence. |
| 8.31.01–8.31.02: No tests shall be carried out in the production environment without prior approval from the process owner. Significant changes in the production environment shall always be tested before being put into production. | Log360 - Production environment change monitoring, real-time alerts on unapproved changes to production. | Log360 monitors the production environment for changes and alerts when modifications occur outside approved change windows, detecting unauthorised test activity or unapproved production deployments. |
| 8.32.01–8.32.02: The change management process shall cover administration of changes including test plan results, risk assessment of potential consequences including a rollback plan, and the approval procedure. Change management shall be conducted on a generally accepted management framework. | Log360 - Change activity logging, before/after configuration change records, compliance audit reports. | Log360 logs all configuration changes detected in the monitored environment, providing the before and after records and enabling rollback verification by capturing the pre-change state. |
Conclusion
Now that you've explored how Baseline Informatiebeveiliging Overheid 2 (BIO2) strengthens information security across every layer of the Dutch government and how Log360 helps you meet every control, it's time to take the next step.
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Disclaimer: The information provided on this page is for general knowledge and awareness purposes only. It is not intended to serve as professional, legal, or regulatory advice. Compliance with BIO2 (Baseline Informatiebeveiliging Overheid 2) depends on your organization's specific environment, processes, and risk profile.
To accurately assess your compliance posture, we strongly recommend engaging a qualified consultant, compliance agency, or referring directly to the official BIO2 documentation and guidelines published by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations on bio-overheid.nl and in the Staatscourant (Circulaire Baseline Informatiebeveiliging Overheid 2, March 5, 2026).