Recital 86 Managed security service providers

Among service providers, managed security service providers means a managed service provider that carries out or provides assistance for activities relating to cybersecurity risk management; in areas such as incident means an event compromising the availability, authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of stored, transmitted or processed data or of the services offered by, or accessible via, network and information systems; response, penetration testing, security audits and consultancy play a particularly important role in assisting entities means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; in their efforts to prevent, detect, respond to or recover from incidents means an event compromising the availability, authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of stored, transmitted or processed data or of the services offered by, or accessible via, network and information systems;. Managed security service providers means a managed service provider that carries out or provides assistance for activities relating to cybersecurity risk management; have however also themselves been the target of cyberattacks and, because of their close integration in the operations of entities means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; pose a particular risk means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident;. Essential and important entities means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; should therefore exercise increased diligence in selecting a managed security service provider means a managed service provider that carries out or provides assistance for activities relating to cybersecurity risk management;.