How PEAK Wind Advanced Toward NIS2 Compliance with Continuous External Visibility
| PEAK Wind | |
| Company size | Mid-sized enterprise |
| Task | Continuous external IT asset visibility and NIS2 alignment |
| Time to value | < 1 week |
| Results of implementing Attaxion | – Shift from weekly to daily external asset discovery cadence – Improved coverage and consistency of externally exposed IT asset monitoring – Reduced reliance on manual, fragmented asset reviews – Stronger foundation for NIS2 compliance (asset visibility and risk identification) |
PEAK Wind is a renewable energy consultancy supporting clients across Europe, USA and APAC, with 10 offices across 7 different countries, managing more than 2 GW of renewable energy assets. Operating in a cloud-first environment, the company relies on distributed teams, SaaS-based tools, and infrastructure hosted in Microsoft Azure to deliver its services.
Because PEAK Wind works with and on behalf of organizations in the renewable energy sector — a critical industry under the NIS2 Directive — it is required to meet the security and compliance standards.
Table of Contents
PART 1
The Challenge
NIS2 introduces clear expectations around several cybersecurity concepts:
- asset visibility
- risk identification
- continuous monitoring
For PEAK Wind, meeting these requirements depends on maintaining a reliable and up-to-date view of all externally exposed assets.
This is not a one-time exercise. In a cloud-based environment (and PEAK Wind primarily uses Azure for their infrastructure), services can be quickly created across teams, including development and business functions, making it difficult to maintain a consistent, centralized inventory of external exposure.
PEAK Wind’s approach based on combining Azure inventories, internal documentation, and manual reviews provided a baseline, but lacked the continuity required for ongoing compliance.
To adhere to NIS2 requirements, PEAK Wind needed to implement a solution that can continuously discover internet-facing IT assets, identify exposures, and notify the IT and security team.
PART 2
The Solution
To support these compliance efforts, PEAK Wind adopted Attaxion as part of its exposure management strategy.
Attaxion provides continuous discovery and monitoring of external IT assets, helping the team maintain an up-to-date view of domains, services, and configurations from a single place. This allows PEAK Wind to track changes over time and identify externally exposed services more consistently.
Implementation was straightforward, requiring minimal setup and no major architectural changes. The solution fits naturally into PEAK Wind’s existing environment and is now being integrated into day-to-day security workflows, including ticketing and remediation tracking tools, to further streamline response efforts.
“IT asset discovery that previously took days is now near-instantaneous with Attaxion, giving us continuous visibility across our external attack surface. For an organization pursuing NIS2 compliance, that level of responsiveness is essential.” — Joel Clifford, IT Manager at PEAK Wind
PART 3
The Results
With Attaxion in place, PEAK Wind has improved how it monitors and understands its external IT attack surface.
The team replaced manual weekly reviews and standalone automated monitoring with continuous visibility into internet-facing IT assets, allowing for more timely awareness of changes and potential exposure.
This shift supports a more consistent and proactive approach to managing external risk.
Centralized visibility has also reduced reliance on fragmented, manual processes. Instead of piecing together information from multiple sources, including external developers, the team can work from a single, continuously updated view that they have internally.
Most importantly, these improvements provide a stronger foundation for NIS2 alignment. By maintaining ongoing visibility into external IT assets and exposures, PEAK Wind is better equipped to meet regulatory expectations around asset management and risk identification.
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