NIS2 Compliance in the AI Age: Why Traditional Cybersecurity Isn't Enough
Akamai, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Four challenges organizations face achieving NIS2 compliance, and why segmentation is central to meeting them.
Akamai examines why NIS2 compliance is harder in the AI era, setting out four challenges organizations face and arguing that segmentation is essential to addressing them.
The reasoning is that NIS2 obligations around incident impact and continuity are effectively obligations to limit blast radius, which segmentation delivers and monitoring alone does not.
For organizations in scope, the article is useful for connecting specific regulatory requirements to architectural controls, which is the translation step most compliance guidance skips.