Brind
Compliance that Extends beyond the Audit

Organisations often spend months preparing for compliance assessments and audits, whether for NIS2, ISO 27001 or other cybersecurity frameworks. Much of that work becomes repetitive. As NIS2 is a directive rather than an act, each EU member state implements it differently. For international organisations, this means managing multiple national compliance requirements across countries, entities and compliance processes.

This can be particularly challenging for mid-sized enterprises. They can already face many of the same compliance challenges as larger organisations, including multiple entities, frameworks and national requirements, but often have smaller teams and fewer dedicated resources to manage them.

Brind addresses this complexity through an AI-powered cybersecurity compliance and audit platform. It brings compliance preparation, evidence management and the audit process into one secure environment where organisations, consultants and auditors can work together.

Bringing Compliance and Audit Together

Brind also supports local organisations, but international companies often need to comply with NIS2 across countries such as the Netherlands, Hungary and Italy, each with its own implementation approach.

Brind was first used in Hungary, one of the first EU countries to introduce detailed NIS2 compliance and audit requirements. The complexity of the Hungarian approach gave the founders an opportunity to develop the platform in a demanding regulatory environment. The experience also highlighted a wider European challenge. International companies may face the same directive in several countries, but the requirements and audit practices they encounter can be different in each one.

Brind connects organisations preparing for compliance, auditors conducting assessments and consultancy firms supporting customers within one environment. Organisations can use the platform directly, while auditors and consultants can manage customer portfolios and invite companies to collaborate.

The platform is designed primarily as a software-as-a-service solution, while also supporting on-premises and hybrid deployment options. Companies can access the platform through audit partners, complete audits and then decide whether to subscribe and retain their work.

That flexibility is matched by a more connected approach to the audit itself. Audits often require organisations to exchange sensitive evidence through email, SharePoint and other disconnected systems. Brind replaces this fragmented process with one secure platform where auditors, organisations and consultants can manage the audit together. Role-based collaboration allows each stakeholder to handle relevant compliance tasks. HR teams, consultants and auditors manage their responsibilities, while CISOs and global CISOs maintain visibility across countries.

Brind is developed entirely in the EU and customer data is kept within the region. This reflects the company’s focus on European organisations and the regulatory environment in which they operate.

Growing Beyond NIS2

While customers found value in the platform, compliance preparation still required a lot of work. Customer and partner feedback led Brind to introduce secure AI features to make compliance preparation easier. Organisations can upload policies, screenshots and other compliance evidence into a secure and private environment. The AI identifies relevant evidence for specific controls, points users to the relevant pages in lengthy policies and suggests how the company meets those requirements.

Brind keeps customer environments isolated, so information from one organisation is not used to train the system for another customer. Developed with the AI Act in mind, the system follows a secure-by-design approach. The role of AI is clearly defined. It assists cybersecurity professionals, auditors and consultants rather than replacing them.

As customer requirements expanded beyond NIS2, to include ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, TISAX and other cybersecurity requirements, Brind evolved into a broader cybersecurity compliance and audit platform.

“We started with NIS2 because that was the immediate challenge our customers were facing. But the same evidence, the same people and often the same controls are involved in several other frameworks. We saw an opportunity to help organisations build on the compliance work they had already done,” says Daniel Vaczi, CEO and founder.

Making Compliance a Continuous Process

Brind treats compliance as a continuous process rather than a one-time project. Compliance is not something organisations can simply complete once and set aside. Systems change, documents are updated, new evidence is created and requirements evolve. In some countries this includes recurring audits, while in others organisations need to maintain and demonstrate compliance in different ways. Brind therefore connects related requirements across different cybersecurity frameworks. Evidence already collected for one requirement can be linked to other relevant controls, allowing organisations to reuse work that has already been done instead of collecting the same information again.

One of Brind’s early customers, a company group with more than 20 subsidiaries, completed its NIS2 audits using the platform. Evidence collected for one subsidiary could then be reused across others, reducing the need to repeat the same compliance work.

Brind is now looking at how information from cybersecurity and IT systems can become part of the compliance process as well. Instead of relying only on evidence collected before an audit, operational data could help organisations understand their compliance status as it changes. This would also bring technical security teams and the people responsible for compliance closer together.

As Brind expands its coverage of national NIS2 requirements across Europe, the focus remains on reducing the manual work that takes up so much of a compliance or audit project. The company does not see technology as a replacement for professional judgement. Its purpose is to give experts more time for the work that actually requires their experience.