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Cybersecurity Code of Practice (CCoP) 2.0 Compliance

Ensure your cybersecurity controls align with CCoP 2.0 requirements to safeguard critical infrastructure and reduce organizational risk. Continuously validate your defenses through adversarial simulations and real-world attack scenarios to enhance resilience and maintain compliance.

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What is the Cybersecurity Code of Practice (CCoP) 2.0?

The Cybersecurity Code of Practice (CCoP) 2.0, introduced by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), provides guidelines to protect Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) and ensure the resilience of essential services. It focuses on proactive measures like risk assessments, incident response, and continuous security validation.

CCoP 2.0 sets strict requirements for governance, protection, detection, and response. Compliance strengthens defenses against cyber-attacks and promotes a unified approach to cybersecurity, requiring effective security controls and ongoing validation to stay ahead of emerging threats.

Stay CCoP-compliant and secure your Critical Information Infrastructure with continuous validation

Why CCoP 2.0 Compliance is Important

CCoP 2.0 compliance is more than fulfilling regulatory requirements. It ensures that organizations effectively safeguard their Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) against evolving cyber threats and maintain the resilience of essential services. Compliance requires organizations to continuously assess, detect, and respond to cybersecurity risks, proving that their security controls are effective in protecting systems and data.

CCoP 2.0 emphasizes ongoing validation and adaptation of cybersecurity measures, making continuous security validation a key aspect of staying compliant. Here's how CCoP 2.0 compliance benefits organizations:

  • Protects against sophisticated cyber threats
  • Strengthens security governance and risk management
  • Improves incident response capabilities
  • Builds trust with regulators, stakeholders, and the public
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Benefits of Security Validation for CCoP 2.0 Compliance

Picus helps organizations in critical sectors continuously test the effectiveness of cybersecurity controls required by CCoP 2.0, ensuring compliance while minimizing the risk of cyber threats impacting critical infrastructure and essential services.

Ensure Critical Infrastructure Security

Continuously validate security controls that protect systems supporting critical operations, preventing unauthorized access and cyberattacks.

Strengthen Cyber Resilience

Regularly simulate sophisticated cyberattacks to ensure that defenses are functioning as intended.

Automate Continuous Security Validation

Shift from periodic testing to continuous validation, ensuring that your infrastructure remains secure throughout the year, not just during audits.

Enhance Compliance Readiness

Generate automated validation reports to demonstrate the effectiveness of security controls in maintaining compliance with CCoP 2.0 requirements and support audit reviews.

 

What CCoP 2.0 Compliance Requires

CCoP 2.0 establishes clear standards for protecting Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) and ensuring the resilience of essential services. Its various sections define specific requirements organizations must meet to achieve and maintain compliance.

Section 5.16:

Adversarial Attack Simulation

CCoP 2.0 Section 5.16 highlights the importance of adversarial attack simulations (e.g., red, blue, and purple teaming) to assess the effectiveness of cybersecurity defenses. This involves testing defenses by simulating real-world attacks to identify weaknesses and improve organizational resilience.

How Picus helps to Address the Gap:

Picus facilitates adversarial attack simulations that replicate real-world attack tactics to test how well defenses withstand sophisticated cyber threats. This continuous validation ensures that cybersecurity controls are not only in place but are actively working to mitigate risk in dynamic environments.

 

Section 5.15:

Penetration Testing

CCoP 2.0 Section 5.15 mandates that organizations conduct regular penetration testing to identify security weaknesses in their CII systems. These tests must be performed by certified penetration testers at least once annually, or following significant system changes.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus complements expert-led penetration testing by automating repeatable attack scenarios that continuously validate baseline security controls. This reduces manual effort, expands coverage between formal tests, and allows human testers to focus on advanced, high-impact attack scenarios with stronger baselines and fewer blind spots.

 

Section 5.14:

Vulnerability Assessment

CCoP 2.0 Section 5.14 requires organizations to regularly conduct vulnerability assessments to identify, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities across their Critical Information Infrastructure (CII). The goal is to ensure that vulnerabilities are addressed in a timely manner based on the potential impact they have on the organization's operations.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus continuously validates vulnerabilities by simulating real-world attack scenarios. This enables organizations to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts based on actual risk, not just theoretical vulnerabilities, ensuring that defenses are robust against current threats.

 

Section 6.2:

Monitoring and Detection

CCoP 2.0 Section 6.2 requires the implementation of monitoring and detection mechanisms to identify cybersecurity events and trigger timely responses. These mechanisms must ensure that any anomalies are detected and investigated promptly.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus validates monitoring and detection controls by executing real-world attack scenarios and analyzing detection outcomes. Using Picus Detection Analytics, it identifies which attacks trigger alerts, which are missed, and where visibility gaps exist, enabling teams to continuously verify detection effectiveness and tune monitoring controls to ensure timely investigation of critical events.

 

Section 10.1:

OT Architecture and Security

CCoP 2.0 Section 10.1 requires organizations to implement security measures for Operational Technology (OT) systems to ensure they are protected from cyber threats.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus assists in securing OT systems by simulating attacks specifically targeting operational technology. This ensures that OT defenses are tested and validated, helping organizations prevent potential disruptions to critical industrial processes.

 

Section 7.3:

Cybersecurity Exercise

CCoP 2.0 Section 7.3 mandates organizations to conduct cybersecurity exercises to test and validate their response plans, ensuring they are effective in real-world scenarios.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus enables organizations to incorporate adversarial simulations into their cybersecurity exercises. This allows teams to continuously test their response to a variety of attack scenarios and improve their effectiveness in managing cyber incidents.

 

Section 6.1:

Logging

CCoP 2.0 Section 6.1 requires organizations to generate and store logs for all cybersecurity events, including network connections, access attempts, and application activities, to support threat detection and incident response. Logs must be stored securely and for a minimum of 12 months.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus integrates with SIEM and EDR systems to provide automated log validation. This allows for continuous monitoring and analysis of logs, ensuring they capture relevant data for real-time threat detection and enabling accurate incident investigations when needed.

 

Section 6.4:

Cyber Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing

CCoP 2.0 Section 6.4 emphasizes the importance of leveraging cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and sharing relevant threat data with stakeholders to improve collective defense efforts.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus not only provides threat intelligence through simulated attack scenarios but also integrates with external CTI sources to continuously adapt its attack simulations. This ensures that organizations stay ahead of emerging threats and can share actionable intelligence for enhanced defense coordination.

 

Section 3.2:

Risk Management

CCoP 2.0 Section 3.2 requires organizations to establish a cybersecurity risk management framework that includes identifying and assessing cybersecurity risks, setting risk tolerances, and maintaining a risk register for each CII.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus supports organizations by continuously identifying and validating cybersecurity risks in real-time through adversarial simulations. This helps organizations update their risk registers with validated data and continuously manage risks, ensuring they stay within acceptable thresholds.

 

Section 7.1:

Incident Management

CCoP 2.0 Section 7.1 requires organizations to develop and implement an incident management plan that details roles, responsibilities, and procedures to respond to cybersecurity incidents.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus assists with incident preparedness by simulating cyberattacks and testing an organization's response capabilities. This helps organizations refine their incident management plans and ensure they can effectively contain and mitigate incidents when they occur.

 

Section 3.3:

Policies, Standards, Guidelines, and Procedures

CCoP 2.0 Section 3.3 requires organizations to develop and maintain policies, standards, and procedures that guide the management of cybersecurity risks. These must be reviewed regularly to remain aligned with the changing threat landscape.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus helps ensure that cybersecurity policies and procedures remain effective by continuously validating security controls through real-world simulations. This supports organizations in adapting their policies to effectively address emerging threats and vulnerabilities.

 

Section 3.1:

Leadership and Oversight

CCoP 2.0 Section 3.1 requires senior leadership and boards to provide effective oversight of cybersecurity risks, ensuring proper governance and accountability. Cybersecurity roles must be clearly defined, and adequate resources must be allocated to manage risks.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus provides real-time validation and reporting of security controls, giving leadership concrete evidence to assess the effectiveness of their cybersecurity strategies. This ensures that the board and senior management can make informed decisions about cybersecurity risks and resource allocation.

 

Section 4.1:

Asset Management

CCoP 2.0 Section 4.1 requires organizations to identify and maintain an inventory of all CII assets, including their dependencies and connections to external systems, to ensure comprehensive risk management.

How Picus Helps to Address the Gap:

Picus assists in identifying vulnerabilities within critical assets by continuously validating their security posture. This ensures that asset inventories remain up-to-date and reflect the current risk landscape.

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A Practical Guide to CCoP 2.0 Compliance Using Picus

Discover how to elevate CCoP 2.0 compliance with continuous validation. This guide explains how simulating real-world attack scenarios and validating security controls helps ensure resilience, offering actionable, audit-ready evidence throughout the year.

Reduce CCoP 2.0 Compliance Risk with BAS and Automated Penetration Testing

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and Automated Penetration Testing (APT) are essential in bridging the gap between theoretical compliance and real-world security effectiveness.

Picus helps organizations strengthen their CCoP 2.0 compliance by enabling them to:

  • Simulate and validate security controls to ensure critical infrastructure is protected from unauthorized access and cyber threats.
  • Continuously assess control effectiveness with simulation-based testing, mimicking real-world attack techniques to identify vulnerabilities that could compromise essential services.
  • Automate penetration testing to validate cybersecurity controls against potential threats like ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration, ensuring resilience in the face of evolving cyber threats.

Identify and prioritize security gaps across hybrid infrastructures, ensuring compliance with CCoP 2.0 requirements while strengthening audit and incident response readiness.

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Frequently Asked Questions

CCoP 2.0 compliance refers to adhering to the Cybersecurity Code of Practice for Critical Information Infrastructure (CCoP) 2.0, issued by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. The code defines mandatory cybersecurity requirements to protect Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) and ensure the resilience of essential services. Organizations must implement, operate, and continuously validate cybersecurity controls across governance, protection, detection, and response domains.



CCoP 2.0 applies to owners of Critical Information Infrastructure (CIIOs) in Singapore. This includes organizations operating essential services across sectors such as energy, water, healthcare, banking, transport, and telecommunications. Both IT and OT systems designated as CII fall under the scope of CCoP 2.0.

CCoP 2.0 includes a wide range of technical and organizational requirements, including:

  • Cybersecurity risk management and governance
  • Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
  • Adversarial attack simulation (red, blue, and purple teaming)
  • Logging, monitoring, and detection of cybersecurity events
  • Incident management, response, and recovery planning
  • Asset management and system resilience

Organizations must demonstrate not only that controls exist, but that they operate effectively in real-world conditions and adapt to evolving threats.

 

The benefits of CCoP 2.0 compliance go beyond meeting regulatory obligations:

  • Improved resilience of critical services against cyber threats
  • Stronger risk-based security decisions supported by continuous validation
  • Better detection and response readiness through tested controls
  • Increased confidence from regulators and stakeholders

By meeting CCoP 2.0 requirements, organizations reduce the likelihood and impact of cyber incidents affecting essential services.

 

While CCoP 2.0 is broader than a short control list, core control areas include:

  • Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
  • Adversarial attack simulation
  • Logging, monitoring, and detection mechanisms
  • Incident response and recovery processes
  • Asset inventory and dependency mapping

These controls work together to ensure visibility, protection, and operational readiness across CII environments.

No. CCoP 2.0 applies to both IT and Operational Technology (OT) systems designated as CII. The code includes specific requirements for OT architecture and security, recognizing the unique risks and safety considerations in industrial and operational environments.

Picus supports CCoP 2.0 compliance by continuously validating the effectiveness of cybersecurity controls using real-world attack behaviors. Through Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), automated penetration testing, and detection analytics, Picus helps organizations:

  • Validate vulnerability management and penetration testing controls
  • Test adversarial attack simulation requirements
  • Measure detection and monitoring effectiveness
  • Support risk management and incident preparedness with defensible evidence

This allows organizations to move beyond policy-based compliance and demonstrate real operational effectiveness.

To implement CCoP 2.0 compliance, organizations should:

  • Establish a cybersecurity risk management framework
  • Define and document policies, standards, and procedures
  • Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests
  • Validate detection, response, and recovery controls continuously
  • Perform cybersecurity exercises and incident simulations
  • Maintain evidence to support audits and regulatory reviews

By combining structured governance with continuous security validation, organizations can maintain compliance while strengthening their overall cyber resilience.