Recital 89 Basic cyber hygiene practices

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 adopt a wide range of basic cyber hygiene practices, such as zero-trust principles, software means the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; updates, device configuration, network segmentation, identity and access management or user awareness, organise training for their staff and raise awareness concerning cyber threats means a cyber threat as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881;, phishing or social engineering techniques. Furthermore, those 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 evaluate their own cybersecurity means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; capabilities and, where appropriate, pursue the integration of cybersecurity means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; enhancing technologies, such as artificial intelligence or machine-learning systems to enhance their capabilities and the security of network and information systems means the ability of network and information systems to resist, at a given level of confidence, any event that may compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of stored, transmitted or processed data or of the services offered by, or accessible via, those network and information systems;.