Will you be operational again within 15 minutes?
Business Continuity & NIS-2
Protect your supply chain
from total systemic failure.
With field-proven EIKONA Business Continuity, you can ensure full compliance with the stringent regulatory requirements of the new NIS-2 directive. Protect your entire supply chain with a robust contingency plan and guarantee the operational readiness of your dispatch and warehouse teams – even if your primary IT goes completely dark due to a cyber-attack.
The Risk of Silence: When the wheels grind to a halt
It’s not a question of 'if' a cyber-attack will strike, but 'when'.
The Cost of Inaction:
Before the total collapse.
An average mid-sized logistics firm loses between 5.000 € and 50.000 € per hour of system downtime – a figure that rises the longer the recovery takes.
The 6-Step Method:
Your path to resilient logistics
1. Identify Risks
We don’t just look at the IT infrastructure; we look at your warehouse floor. Which processes are "mission-critical"? We identify the dependencies of your dispatch, warehouse scanning, and gate handling. The goal is to determine the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) – the point at which a standstill causes irreversible damage.
2. Develop Scenarios
A hacker attack on the TMS requires different measures than a physical fibre-optic cable break outside the depot. We develop specific scenarios for the logistics sector: What happens if the electronic data interchange (EDI) with partners is interrupted? We define the thresholds for when you must switch to the EIKONA contingency system.
3. Define Actions
At the heart of EIKONA Business Continuity lies the creation of an independent cloud environment tailored to your operations. This robust infrastructure features a "Shadow TMS", a streamlined secondary system that securely holds your most critical shipment and route data at all times. To ensure seamless transitions, we provide pre-configured emergency access points that allow your staff to remain fully operational from any location, whether they are on-site or working remotely. Furthermore, integrated communication protocols trigger automated workflows, ensuring that your customers and partners are informed the very moment a primary system failure occurs.
4. Implementation & Integration
We don’t just deliver a concept; we deliver a functional environment. We integrate the "Emergency-Sync" into your existing processes, ensuring that your most important shipment data is continuously mirrored. This ensures that in the event of a crisis, you are not starting from scratch, but from a live dataset.
5. Activation & Emergency Operations
In the event of a crisis, you can reroute your operations to the EIKONA BCM system at the touch of a button. Your employees continue to work via a browser-based interface, ensuring that vital functions such as warehouse scanning, dispatch, and status updates remain active. This ensures your supply chain remains transparent, even in the face of a total IT failure within your primary system.
6. Re-Integration & NIS-2-Dokumentation
Once the crisis has been resolved, EIKONA Logistics automatically merges the data captured during emergency operations back into your primary system (failback), ensuring that no data gaps occur. Finally, you will receive the necessary documentation for your audit, providing verifiable proof that you meet the requirements of both the NIS-2 directive and ISO 22301.
Strategies for Global Supply Chain Resilience
The 3 Pillars
of International Continuity:
The EIKONA Enterprise Platform Advantage: Our EIKONA Business Continuity solution functions as a self-sufficient, global data hub. While your primary IT is isolated in the affected country, EIKONA Logistics keeps the digital windows open to your international partners, customs interfaces, and key accounts. We do not just secure your data; we safeguard your global operational continuity.
Our Customers
EIKONA Logistics Emons
The 'TMS Light' provides both us and our partners with a vital layer of security. In the event of an emergency, it would allow us to maintain our operations and continue to satisfy our customers and partners to the best of our ability. To us, this is the hallmark of high-quality, reliable service.
Is my company
subject to NIS-2?
Our assessment tool is designed to provide you with sound initial guidance; however, it does not constitute legally binding advice. While the applicability of the directive is immediately clear for many logistics companies based on employee numbers and turnover, borderline cases often arise in practice. In such complex scenarios, a thorough review may require additional time or the expertise of a specialised legal professional.
Logistics Expertise meets IT Security