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NIST CSF 2.0, GovernGV.OC-03

Legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements regarding cybersecurity - including privacy and civil liberties obligations - are understood and managedNIST Cybersecurity Framework, version 2.0, February 2024 (NIST CSWP 29), GV.OC-03

We read each law below as bearing on this control. That does not mean the control, done well, meets the law: what each law asks is on its own page. Law library as of .

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not yet in force
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Related controls in other frameworks the same duties, in at least two laws we track, reach both

A law in force is unmarked; the rest wear their state: not yet in force proposed

  • Albania
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Central African Republic
  • China
  • Connecticut
  • Cuba
  • Czech Republic
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Estonia
  • European Union
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iowa
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Nevada
  • New York
  • Ohio
  • Peru
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Serbia
  • Sierra Leone
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • State of Palestine
  • Sweden
  • Taiwan
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Utah
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen

Sector security regimes

64 laws, 43 jurisdictions
JurisdictionLawWhat it asks, as read here
Albania Law No. 25/2024, On Cybersecurity

Register your critical or important information infrastructure with the National Authority for Cybersecurity (AKSK), establish a Computer Security Incident Response Team and a single point of contact for AKSK and other CSIRTs, and implement the technical, organisational and operational risk management measures a Council of Ministers methodology sets for your designated category.

Where your organisation processes personal data in the course of these duties, do so under Albania's personal data protection legislation; this law's security measures duty is separate from, and does not substitute for, a breach notification duty to Albania's data protection authority under Law No. 124/2024.

Austria DORA-Vollzugsgesetz (DORA-VG), Competent Authority, Scope Extension and ICT Risk Penalties

Meet DORA's requirements on ICT risk management (Articles 5 to 14, except Article 11(11)), simplified ICT risk management (Article 16(1) and (2)), handling, classifying and reporting ICT-related incidents and cyber threats (Articles 17, 18(1) and (2) and 19), digital operational resilience testing (Articles 24 and 25) and ICT third-party risk (Articles 28 to 30), which Section 7(1) enforces.

Austria Netz- und Informationssystemsicherheits-Verordnung (NISV 2026), Risk-Management Requirements and Significant-Incident Criteria

Meet the technical and methodological risk-management requirements of Article 2 and the Annex of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 whatever your sector, including where your type of entity is not one that Implementing Regulation names (Section 2).

Austria Telekommunikationsgesetz 2021 (TKG 2021), Section 44 Cybersecurity Measures of Operators and Providers

If you operate or provide public electronic communications networks or services in Austria, take the cybersecurity measures that other legal provisions require of you (Section 44(1)).

Follow any ordinance the regulatory authority issues under Section 44(1) setting closer technical and organisational security measures for your network or service.

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Belgium Law of 17 February 2022 (Electronic Communications Act Article 105), Ministerial Authorization for 5G Network Elements and Location of 5G Infrastructure

If you are a mobile network operator offering a 5G network, obtain an authorization granted jointly by the ministers concerned before you use an element of your 5G network (Article 105, paragraph 1).

If a royal decree extends the authorization duty to your category (a mobile virtual network operator, the public company ASTRID, or a private-network operator designated as critical-infrastructure or essential-service operator), obtain the same authorization before you use an element of your 5G network (Article 105, paragraph 2).

Canada OSFI Guideline B-10, Third-Party Risk Management

Provide OSFI, upon request, information related to your business and strategic arrangements with third parties, risk management and control environments, and promptly notify OSFI of substantive issues affecting your ability to deliver critical operations due to a third-party arrangement.

Canada Prudential supervision of banks: the Office's objects and the Superintendent's directions to a bank

If the Superintendent directs the bank under section 645 of the Bank Act, cease or refrain from the act or course of conduct that the direction identifies as an unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the business or affairs of the bank, and perform the acts the direction requires to remedy the situation.

Central African Republic Cybersecurity Law: Essential-Service Operator Cybersecurity Regime

Comply with the protective measures the Agence Nationale de la Cybersécurité sets to secure your essential infrastructure, and hold the accreditation the Agency grants to a compliant operator.

Central African Republic Cybersecurity Law: Mandatory Security Audit Regime

Provide the information and documents a security audit requires, and do not obstruct or resist it: obstructing a security audit is a criminal offense under Article 43.

Denmark Act on Security and Preparedness in the Telecoms Sector (Lov om sikkerhed og beredskab i telesektoren), Security Risk Management Measures

Register with the Agency, giving your name, address and contact details and the other EU member states where you provide services, within two weeks of falling under the Act, and report changes within two weeks (Section 7(1) to (3)).

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Denmark NIS 2-loven, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Registration

If you are a DNS provider, top-level-domain registry, domain-name-registration-service provider, or a provider of cloud-computing, data-centre, content-delivery-network, managed, managed-security, online-marketplace, online-search-engine or social-networking-services-platform services, register with the relevant competent authority within 3 months of first falling within the Act's scope, stating your name, address, sector and sub-sector, contact details, and the EU member states where you provide services. Other essential and important entities register within 2 weeks of first falling within scope. Anyone already in scope when the Act commenced had to register by .

Djibouti Digital Code, Book II: Electronic Communications Network and Service Security

Take all technical and organizational measures necessary to secure your network and services at a level adapted to the existing risk, and comply with the technical security prescriptions the national cybersecurity authority issues.

Give the cybersecurity authority confidential access, on request, to the arrangements you have made to secure your network, and submit your network to a security and integrity inspection the authority conducts or commissions.

Djibouti Digital Code, Book VII: Health-Data Hosting Security Certification

Hold a conformity certificate the national cybersecurity authority issues before hosting digital health data, if your activity is making available and maintaining the physical site, the physical or virtual infrastructure, or an application-hosting platform for a health-data information system, administering or operating such a system, or backing up health data.

Estonia Act Amending the Financial Supervision Authority Act and Other Acts (DORA Implementation), Credit Institution ICT Risk and Incident Notification

Comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, including by using and managing network and information systems as the Regulation provides (Credit Institutions Act Section 82^4(1)).

European Union Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1366, Cybersecurity Network Code for Cross-Border Electricity Flows: Entity Risk Management, Controls and Management System

Within 12 months after your Article 24(6) notification, and every three years thereafter, give your competent authority a report listing the controls selected for your entity-level risk mitigation plan with the implementation status of each, an estimate of the risk to each Union-wide high-impact or critical-impact process, and your critical ICT service providers for critical-impact processes (Article 27).

If you are a high-impact entity, apply the minimum cybersecurity controls within your high-impact perimeter, and if you are a critical-impact entity, apply the advanced cybersecurity controls within your critical-impact perimeter, within 12 months after the controls are approved or updated (Articles 28(2) and (3) and 29(6)).

European Union DORA Technical Standards on ICT Risk Management Tools, Methods, Processes and Policies and the Simplified ICT Risk Management Framework

Submit the report on the review of the ICT risk management framework in a searchable electronic format and include the information that Article 27(2) lists (Article 27).

European Union DORA, Articles 24-27 (Digital Operational Resilience Testing and Threat-Led Penetration Testing)

When the testing ends and reports and remediation plans are agreed, give the designated authority a summary of the relevant findings, the remediation plans and the documentation demonstrating that the TLPT was conducted in accordance with the requirements, and notify your competent authority of the attestation you receive, the summary and the remediation plans (Article 26(6) and (7)).

European Union DORA, Articles 31-44 (Oversight of Critical ICT Third-Party Service Providers)

If you are part of a group, designate one legal person as the coordination point for adequate representation and communication with the Lead Overseer, and notify the financial entities to which you provide services of your designation as critical (Article 31(4) and (5)).

If you are established in a third country, establish a subsidiary in the Union within the 12 months following your designation, because financial entities may use your services only if you have, and notify the Lead Overseer of any changes to the structure of the management of that subsidiary (Article 31(12) and (13)).

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European Union NIS2 Directive, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

If you operate an online marketplace, online search engine or social networking services platform, are not established in the Union, and offer it within the Union, designate a representative in the Union, established in one of the Member States where you offer the service; you then fall under the jurisdiction of the Member State where the representative is established.

European Union Payment Services Technical Standards on Strong Customer Authentication, Personalized Security Credentials and Common and Secure Open Standards of Communication

Report problems with a dedicated interface to your national competent authority without delay, whether you are the account servicing payment service provider or a provider referred to in Article 30(1) (Article 33(3)).

Finland Laki Finanssivalvonnasta, Supervision and Sanctions for the Digital Operational Resilience Regulation

If you are a financial entity under DORA Article 2(2) supervised by Finanssivalvonta, meet the ICT risk-management duty in DORA Article 16 (Act 878/2008, section 38, first paragraph, item 12).

Meet DORA's duties on ICT risk management (Articles 5 to 14), ICT-related incident management, classification and reporting (Articles 17 to 19), digital operational resilience testing (Articles 24 to 27) and management of ICT third-party risk (Articles 28 to 30) (section 40, second paragraph, item 13).

Finland Laki sähköisen viestinnän palveluista, Domain Name Registration Data of Registries and Registrars

As a registrar, notify the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency of your name, contact details, EU establishments, IP address ranges and the EU Member States where you offer services, and report changes to those details within two weeks (three months for establishment details) (section 172 b).

France Loi n° 2018-133 du 26 février 2018 (transposition NIS1), Security Requirements

Where you are instead designated as an operator of essential services, apply the security rules the Premier ministre sets under Article 6 at your own expense, covering governance, protection, defence and resilience of your networks and systems.

France Projet de loi Résilience des Infrastructures Critiques et Cybersécurité, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures (NIS2) proposed

In that committee text, where you are an essential or important entity that provides DNS, domain-name registry, cloud computing, data-centre, content-delivery, managed or managed security services, an online marketplace, an online search engine, a social-networking platform or a trust service, implement the technical and methodological requirements set by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 of , and you may rely on qualified service providers during an inspection to show your compliance with some or all of the objectives.

Ghana Cybersecurity Act, Licensing of Cybersecurity Service Providers

Obtain a licence from the Cyber Security Authority before providing the cybersecurity service; the Authority acknowledges an application within fourteen days and decides it within thirty days.

A granted licence is valid for two years from the date it is granted; apply in writing for renewal not later than one month before it expires.

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Hungary 2007. évi CXXXVIII. törvény (Bszt.), ICT Resilience of Algorithmic Trading Systems

Notify the Supervisory Authority, and the supervisory authority of the seat of each trading venue where you are a member or participant, that you engage in algorithmic trading (Section 26/B(3)).

Ireland European Union (Digital Operational Resilience) (No. 2) Regulations 2025, Competent Authority and Sanctions

If you are a financial entity in Ireland that falls under the DORA Regulation, comply with it and with these Regulations; credit unions are outside both until (regulations 2 and 3).

Stop conduct that breaches the DORA Regulation when the Central Bank orders you to cease and desist, and do not repeat it (regulation 6(4)(a)).

Italy Decreto legislativo 10 marzo 2025, n. 23, DORA Competent Authorities and Regulatory Powers

If you are a financial entity supervised by Banca d'Italia, Consob, IVASS or COVIP, comply with the DORA Regulation and with the provisions those authorities issue to implement it and the decree (Legislative Decree 23/2025, Articles 3 and 9).

If you are a financial intermediary or Bancoposta, comply with the obligations the decree places on you, which Banca d'Italia supervises (Article 3(3)).

Kiribati Cybersecurity Act 2026, Critical Infrastructure Operator Obligations from a date not yet set

Comply with cybersecurity standards the DTO issues, submit to its periodic or ad hoc audits, inspections and penetration testing, and conduct and submit periodic cybersecurity assessments of the infrastructure's risk, vulnerability and preparedness.

Comply with any order the DTO, a Sectoral CERT, the Minister or your sector's regulatory authority makes to take preventative, mitigating or remedial action, and tell the DTO where you cannot meet an obligation under this framework for financial, legal or technical reasons, which lets the Director grant an exception or modify a prescribed standard.

Latvia Financial Market Digital Operational Resilience Law, DORA Provisions

If you are a financial market participant listed in Article 4 of the Law (for example a credit institution, payment institution, electronic money institution, investment firm, insurance or reinsurance undertaking, trading venue or crypto-asset service provider), meet the digital operational resilience requirements of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA); if you are one of the Article 5 entities, meet DORA's simplified framework.

Lithuania Kibernetinio saugumo įstatymas (Law on Cyber Security), Risk-Management Measures

Follow the detailed technical and organisational measures the Government's Cybersecurity Requirements Description sets out; if you are newly registered, you have 12 months from registration to implement the requirements and 24 months to implement the technical requirements the Description names.

Lithuania Lietuvos Respublikos elektroninių ryšių įstatymas, National-Security Vetting of Telecommunications Equipment and Software Suppliers

If you apply for radio frequencies for electronic communications in Lithuania, in a tender, an auction or on direct request, give the Communications Regulatory Authority information on the manufacturers, suppliers and maintenance and support providers of the equipment, devices and software you plan to use that appear on the list set by the Minister of National Defence (Article 69(2)).

Luxembourg Loi du 1er juillet 2024, DORA Competent Authorities, Sanctions and ICT Continuity Duties of Financial Firms

If you are a person supervised by the CSSF or the CAA under the DORA Regulation, stop conduct that breaches it when ordered and do not repeat it, and do not obstruct the authorities' supervisory powers or give them inaccurate or incomplete information (Articles 20-24 and 20-23).

Luxembourg Loi du 5 mai 2026 relative à la cybersécurité (NIS2), Risk-Management Measures for Essential and Important Entities

Notify the measures you take under this duty to the competent authority in the form, format and timeframe it sets by règlement or circulaire.

Malta Malta DORA Regulations (S.L. 330.20)

If you are a financial entity within Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA), comply with DORA as implemented in Malta by these regulations; DORA prevails if the two differ (regulations 1(3) and 3).

Give the Malta Financial Services Authority the documents and data it asks for, attend on-site inspections and investigations and answer its questions, and carry out the corrective and remedial measures it requires (regulation 7).

Malta Measures for a High Common Level of Cybersecurity across the European Union (Malta) Order, Risk-Management Measures for Essential and Important Entities

Register on the national self-registration mechanism of the CIP Department with your name, the CSIRT providing monitoring services to you, your contact details and IP ranges, your sector and the Member States where you provide services, and notify it of any change without delay and within two weeks (article 7(4) and (5)); a DNS service provider, top-level domain name registry, domain name registration service, cloud computing, data centre, content delivery network, managed service, managed security service, online marketplace, online search engine or social networking services platform provider also submits the article 24(1) registry information by the prescribed date and notifies changes within three months.

Micronesia FSM Cybersecurity Act 2025 (Bill), Critical Information Infrastructure Risk-Management Duties proposed

Notify the Department of Justice of a change of ownership or control of your designated critical information infrastructure no later than seven days after the change.

Provide, within the reasonable period the Secretary of Justice specifies in an order, information on the design, configuration, and security of your critical information infrastructure and of any interconnected computer or computer system under your control, and comply with any written direction the Secretary issues to you to manage a cybersecurity threat or risk.

Montenegro Law on Information Security, Essential and Important Entities

Report any change to your registration details to the competent ministry within 14 days of the change (Article 26).

Morocco Loi n° 05-20 relative à la cybersécurité, Digital Service Provider and Platform Operator Security Duties

Take the protective measures the national cybersecurity authority directs to prevent and neutralize the effects of a threat or breach affecting your clients' information systems.

Netherlands Cyberbeveiligingsbesluit, Security Measures and Incident Notification Details

If you are an essential or important entity under the Cyberbeveiligingswet, take at least the measures of Articles 6 to 18 of the Cyberbeveiligingsbesluit to implement Article 21 of the Act (Article 5). A DNS service provider, top-level domain registry, cloud-computing, data-centre, content-delivery-network, managed-service or managed-security-service provider, online marketplace, online search engine, social-networking platform or trust service provider answers to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 instead (Article 4).

New York New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation, Cybersecurity Program and Cybersecurity Policy

Make all documentation and information relevant to your cybersecurity program, including any provisions you adopt from an affiliate's program, available to the Superintendent on request.

Poland Act of 25 June 2025 on Digital Operational Resilience of the Financial Sector, Supervision and Reporting Provisions

If you are a financial entity within Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA) and not excluded by Article 2(3), give the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego the information, documents and explanations it requires within the scope of DORA, and submit to its inspections of your DORA compliance (Articles 18za to 18zc).

Notify the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego when you join or leave cyber-threat information-sharing arrangements under DORA Article 45 (Article 18zj).

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Portugal Lei n.º 73/2025, Digital Operational Resilience of the Financial Sector

If you are a financial entity within Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA) established in Portugal, including an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or a pension fund management entity, comply with DORA as this Act executes it; the former Caixas Económicas that Article 2(2) lists are outside DORA and the Act.

Romania DNSC Order 1/2025, Notification for Registration of Essential and Important Entities

If you are an entity in a sector of Annex 1 or 2 of Ordonanța de urgență nr. 155/2024, use the NIS2@RO platform or the NIS2@RO tool to evaluate whether you are an essential or important entity and to generate the notification form for registration (Articles 2 and 3).

Complete the notification form's six sections: general data, specific data (including size, services, contact points and your network address ranges), specific situations, attached documents, preliminary assessment and entity representation (Articles 4 and 5).

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Romania DNSC Order 2/2025, Service-Disruption Criteria and Entity Risk-Level Methodology

If your own impact or probability values differ from the sector base values, send DNSC an analysis with a sound reason for each value you ask to change (Article 5(3)).

Serbia Law on Information Security, ICT Systems of Special Importance and Security Measures

Apply for registration of your ICT system in the Ministry's registry of priority and important ICT systems.

Sierra Leone Cyber Security and Crime Act, 2021, Critical National Information Infrastructure

If your system, data, or traffic data is designated, meet the minimum standards, guidelines, rules, or procedures the Presidential Order prescribes, which section 7(2) requires to cover at least securing systems by default and logging system and user activity for audit, and permit the National Computer Security Incidence Response Team to audit and inspect the designated infrastructure at any time.

Slovakia Vyhláška MD SR č. 111/2026 Z. z., Transport Sector Security Measures

If you are an essential service operator in rail or road transport under Act 69/2018 on cyber security, apply the sector security measures in Annex 1 (rail) or Annex 2 (road) of this decree as part of your security measures (§ 1).

Slovenia ZEKom-2, Operator Security Measures (Articles 115 and 116)

If you operate a mobile communications network that you supply to critical infrastructure operators, essential service providers, government bodies or holders of key parts of the state security system, also observe the additional security requirements and restrictions of Article 116.

Somalia Somalia Cybersecurity Act (2026) proposed

If the Law is enacted, a designated Critical Information Infrastructure operator would have to meet the cybersecurity standards the National Communications Authority sets and comply with its incident reporting obligations; the Authority's description does not state a reporting clock, a reporting threshold, or a penalty for a missed report.

If the Law is enacted, you would need a current National Communications Authority licence or registration before providing cybersecurity services, or working as a cybersecurity professional, in Somalia.

South Sudan National Communication Act, 2012, Licensee Security Duty

Cooperate with the Authority's own efforts to protect communication networks against intrusion and vandalism, and discourage and prevent disruptive, unethical or malicious practices contrary to the Authority's policies and regulations (Sec. 88(1)).

Spain Real Decreto-ley 12/2018, Security Obligations for Operators of Essential Services and Digital Service Providers

If designated an operator of essential services, designate a responsable de la seguridad de la informacion within three months of your designation, notify the competent authority of the appointment, and file a Declaracion de Aplicabilidad of the security measures you apply within six months of designation, reviewing it at least every three years.

Spain Real Decreto-ley 8/2023, Article 4, ICT Risk-Management Obligations of Payment System Operators, Payment Processors and Other Technology Providers

Meet the ICT risk-management obligations of Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, reading the Regulation's references to financial entities as references to you (Article 4(1)).

State of Palestine Law by Decree No. 41 of 2022 concerning National Payments, Licensing and Security-Systems Duty

Comply with the security and protection systems and procedures the Palestine Monetary Authority prescribes by instruction for a licensed payment-service or financial-technology company, apply them, and keep pace with their required development (Art. 8(2)(b)).

Sweden Cybersäkerhetsförordning (2025:1507), Notification Channels and Supervisory Authorities

If you are an operator within a sector that the Cybersäkerhetslag (2025:1506) covers, send your registration notification under chapter 2, section 2 of the Act to the single point of contact (section 5 of the ordinance).

Sweden Cybersäkerhetslag, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Register with the authority the government designates as soon as you can, per Cybersäkerhetsförordning (2025:1507) 5 §, and notify a change in what you registered within 14 days of the change.

Sweden Lag (2024:1278), DORA Supplementary Provisions

If you are a financial entity within Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA) supervised in Sweden, comply with DORA as the Act supplements it; the Finansinspektionen is your competent authority and supervises compliance (chapter 1, section 2, and chapter 3, section 1).

If the Finansinspektionen designates you to carry out threat-led penetration tests under DORA Article 26, carry them out as often as it decides, and give the Riksbank the information it requests for its oversight and coordination of the tests (chapter 2, sections 1 and 4).

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Taiwan Cyber Security Management Act, Specific Non-Government Agency Cyber Security Management

Report to the competent authority for approval or recordation of the agency's assigned cyber security responsibility level, based on the sensitivity, volume and nature of the information the agency holds and the scale and nature of its information and communication systems.

Taiwan Telecommunications Management Act, Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Plans

Where the competent authority designates the enterprise's PSTN, in whole or in part, as critical telecommunications infrastructure, additionally draw up a critical telecommunications infrastructure protection plan before the competent authority's own deadline, submit it for the competent authority's evaluation before implementing it, and comply with the technical specifications for info-communications security evaluation the competent authority sets for that infrastructure.

Togo Loi n° 2018-026, opérateurs de services essentiels and the National Cybersecurity Agency (ANCy)

Once designated, comply with the cybersecurity rules for protecting your essential infrastructure that a decree in Council of Ministers fixes under Article 3, and expect the Agence nationale de la cybersécurité (ANCy) to control, audit and inspect your compliance with them.

Tonga Cybersecurity Act 2025, Critical Infrastructure Operator Obligations from a date not yet set

Once designated, register with the Minister CPR, notify the Minister CPR of any change in your legal ownership or in the person or entity operating the infrastructure, and conduct and submit periodic cybersecurity self-assessments to the Ministry CPR in the form and manner it prescribes.

Comply with any minimum standards the Minister CPR issues for critical infrastructure, submit to the Minister CPR's periodic and ad hoc audits and inspections of your compliance, and comply with any order the Minister CPR makes to take remedial, protective or preventative action following an audit, an assessment, or a reported incident.

United Kingdom Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill proposed

If you operate a data center service, give the designated competent authority your name, proper address, the names of your directors or partners and up-to-date contact details within three months of being deemed designated or of notice of your designation, and tell it of any change within seven days of the change taking effect (new regulation 8ZA).

If you provide a relevant digital service, have regard to any relevant guidance from the Information Commission when carrying out your duties under regulation 12(1) (new regulation 12(2A)); notify the Information Commission of any change to your registered details within seven days of the change taking effect, those details now including the names of your directors or partners and which relevant digital services you provide (regulation 14, as amended); and, if your principal office is outside the United Kingdom, nominate a representative in the United Kingdom within three months (regulation 14A, as amended).

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United States Sarbanes-Oxley Act section 802: destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations and bankruptcy

Do not knowingly alter, destroy, mutilate, conceal, cover up, falsify, or make a false entry in a record, document or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of such a matter or case, or in relation to or in contemplation of one.

Yemen Law No. 40 of 2006 on Electronic Payment Systems and Financial and Banking Operations, Secure-Services and Banking-Confidentiality Duty

Comply with the Central Bank of Yemen's Bank Law, Banks Law, and the related regulations and instructions issued for electronic funds transfer operations.

Security baseline statutes

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Cameroon Loi n°2010/012 du 21 décembre 2010 relative à la cybersécurité et à la cybercriminalité au Cameroun, articles 6, 7, 13-14, 24, 26-30, 32, 61(3) (mesures de sécurité et audit de sécurité obligatoire par l'ANTIC)

Have Cameroon's National Information and Communication Technologies Agency (ANTIC) approve the security mechanisms you put in place for this purpose.

Submit your networks and information systems to ANTIC's mandatory security audit, conducted at least once a year or whenever circumstances require it.

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Central African Republic Cybersecurity Law: Network and Information System Security Duty

Put in place technical mechanisms addressing threats to your systems' permanent availability, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation and data confidentiality, and to their physical security, and submit those mechanisms to the Agence Nationale de la Cybersécurité for approval.

Connecticut Adoption of cybersecurity controls by businesses, exemption from punitive damages

The program must conform to the current version of a named framework (the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53/53A, the FedRAMP Security Assessment Framework, the CIS Critical Security Controls, or the ISO/IEC 27000-series), or, for an entity already regulated under HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Title V, FISMA or HITECH, conform to that regime, or comply with the PCI Data Security Standard together with another listed framework; conform to a revised version within six months of its publication.

Cuba Decreto No. 360/2019 and its Reglamento de Seguridad de las TIC (Resolución 128/2019), TIC Security System duty

If you produce equipment or provide network, program, application or IT services, whether from inside or outside Cuba, implement the requirements that guarantee the secure operation of the equipment and services you supply; obtain a Ministry of Communications operating license before offering TIC security services to a third party, a license reserved to a state entity whose staff reside permanently in the country.

Democratic Republic of the Congo Digital Code, Livre IV: Digital Services Provider Security Obligations

Submit your information system to controls the Agence Nationale de Cybersécurité conducts to verify its security level and its compliance with security rules, at your own cost.

Gabon Sécurité des systèmes d'information (dispositions communes)

Deploy technical mechanisms addressing threats to your systems' continuous availability, integrity, authentication, resistance to repudiation by third-party users, data confidentiality and physical security, and have those mechanisms cleared for conformity with the competent administrative authority's cybersecurity policy.

Retain your systems' connection and traffic data for ten years, and submit your networks and information systems to a mandatory, periodic security audit on terms a regulation sets.

Ghana Cybersecurity Act, Cybersecurity Standards and Enforcement

Comply with the cybersecurity standards the Cyber Security Authority develops, establishes, adopts and publishes on its website, which by section 59(1) cover education and skills development, hardware and software engineering, governance and risk management, research and development, and any other area the Authority determines in line with international best practice.

Iowa Tort Liability for Cybersecurity Programs, affirmative defense for a reasonable security program

Satisfy the framework requirement by reasonably conforming the program to a named industry-recognized cybersecurity framework (the NIST framework for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53 and 800-53A, the FedRAMP Security Assessment Framework, the CIS Critical Security Controls, or the ISO/IEC 27000 family), or, where already regulated under one, by conforming the program to the entirety of HIPAA's Security Rule, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Title V, the federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, HITECH, Iowa's own Insurance Data Security Act (chapter 507F), or applicable federal critical-infrastructure-protection rules, or by combining PCI Data Security Standard compliance with one of the named frameworks; conform the program to a revised framework or amended regulation within one year of its publication or effective date.

Kazakhstan Digital Code, general cybersecurity duty on digital-object owners and holders

Also follow the specific requirements set by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Cybersecurity" and the unified digitalization and cybersecurity requirements adopted under it; their own specific duties are not further detailed here.

Kyrgyzstan Digital Code, digital resilience baseline security measures

Follow any measure the sectoral regulator for your sector directs you to take to prevent an incident in the digital environment or reduce its negative consequences; the regulator may issue binding instructions to that effect.

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Mexico Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor, Electronic Transaction Security Duty (Arts. 76 Bis, 76 Bis 1)

Follow the Secretaria de Economia's Norma Mexicana for electronic commerce, which requires among other things reliable technical security mechanisms that guarantee the protection and confidentiality of the consumer's personal information and of the transaction itself.

Nevada Security measures for a data collector accepting payment cards, encryption duty, and conditioned liability shield

If you accept a payment card in connection with a sale of goods or services to a Nevada resident, comply with the current version of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard adopted by the PCI Security Standards Council, with respect to those transactions, by the compliance date the standard itself sets.

Nevada Security measures for data collectors maintaining personal information

If you are a governmental agency, additionally comply, to the extent practicable, with the current version of the CIS Controls published by the Center for Internet Security or the corresponding National Institute of Standards and Technology standards, with respect to the collection, dissemination, and maintenance of those records.

Ohio Ohio Data Protection Act, cybersecurity program safe harbor

Make the program reasonably conform to the current version of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST Special Publication 800-171, NIST Special Publications 800-53 and 800-53A, the FedRAMP security assessment framework, the CIS Critical Security Controls, or the ISO/IEC 27000 family, alone or in combination, or, if already regulated under it, reasonably conform to the entirety of the HIPAA security rule, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Title V, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or HITECH, or comply with the PCI Data Security Standard together with one of the first group's frameworks.

Peru Proyecto de Ley 9906/2024-CR, Ley de Seguridad Digital o Ciberseguridad proposed

Cooperate with public entities to maintain national cybersecurity where you operate as a private legal person in Peru (article 8).

Utah Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act

Build the program as a reasonable security program, a designated coordinator, procedures to detect, prevent and respond to a breach, employee training, and periodic risk assessments of network and software design, information handling, and data storage and disposal, adjusted as circumstances change, or have it reasonably conform to a current named framework: NIST SP 800-171; NIST SP 800-53 and 800-53A; the FedRAMP Security Assessment Framework; the CIS Critical Security Controls; the ISO/IEC 27000 family; the HIPAA Security Rule or Gramm-Leach-Bliley Title V regulations for information those regimes cover; or the PCI Data Security Standard for payment card information.

Uzbekistan Law on Cybersecurity, general cybersecurity duties on cybersecurity subjects

Comply with the cybersecurity requirements the State Security Service sets for protecting information systems and resources.

Vietnam Cybersecurity Law, Information System Classification and Protection Measures

At level 3 or level 4, and not on the Prime Minister's list of information systems critical to national security, perform every Article 10(1) task and, without discretion, promulgate cybersecurity design-and-operation rules, apply management measures meeting national cybersecurity standards, back up and store data protecting the system's components, inspect and supervise compliance, monitor the system, and respond to and remedy incidents; file a dossier proposing your system's level and put it into operation only once that level is approved.

Product security requirements

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Australia Security Standards for Smart Devices

Publish, before supply, the period including an end date for which the device will receive security updates, provide or supply the product with a statement of compliance with the security standard, and retain a copy of that statement for five years.

Austria Cybersicherheitszertifizierungs-Gesetz (CSZG), Supervision of European Cybersecurity Certification

Keep the records that Regulation (EU) 2019/881 or the European certification scheme requires, and let the Federal Chancellor inspect them (Section 4(2)(1)(a)).

Carry out within the set deadline any measure the Federal Chancellor orders by decision to meet the Regulation or a European certification scheme (Section 4(2)(1)(b)).

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Brazil Anatel Cybersecurity Requirements for CPE (Customer Premises Equipment)

Demonstrate this compliance to Anatel's conformity-assessment agent when you seek homologação for the device, or by presenting your own Cybersecurity Policy showing you meet the full set of supplier requirements; Anatel can suspend a homologação it already granted if it later finds a security flaw or vulnerability, and a suspended homologação bars the product from being distributed in the Brazilian market until the problem is fixed.

China Cybersecurity Law, Network Product and Service Security Duties

Meet the mandatory requirements of the applicable national standard for your product or service, and do not embed a malicious program in it.

Czech Republic Cybersecurity Act (Zákon o kybernetické bezpečnosti), Cybersecurity Certification: Authorisation, Suspension and Offences

As a conformity assessment body, carry out assessment at assurance level high, or any assessment the EU scheme reserves to an authorised body, only where you are entitled or authorised to, and issue a European cybersecurity certificate only for a product, process or service that meets the criteria of the EU scheme (Section 61(1)(c) to (e)).

As an accredited conformity assessment body, act only within your accreditation under Article 60(1) of the EU Cybersecurity Act, and suspend a certificate or attestation you issued when the Office orders it (Sections 57(1) and 61(1)(f) and (g)).

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Democratic Republic of the Congo Digital Code, Livre IV: ICT Product and Service Vendor Security Certification

Apply to the Minister responsible for digital affairs for a compliance certificate, which issues only after a vulnerability analysis and a security-guarantee evaluation performed by information security experts the Minister has accredited.

European Union Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2392, Technical Description of Important and Critical Products with Digital Elements

Where a component of your product meets a technical description, classify the product as a whole rather than treating the whole product as important or critical on that account, and still demonstrate that the whole product, including the integrated component, meets the essential cybersecurity requirements (Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 and recital 3).

European Union Cyber Resilience Act, Obligations of Open-Source Software Stewards from , in 13 months

Cooperate with the market surveillance authorities, at their request, with a view to mitigating the cybersecurity risks posed by a product with digital elements qualifying as free and open-source software, and, on a reasoned request, give the authority the documentation of your policy in a language it can easily understand, in paper or electronic form (Article 24(2)).

European Union European Health Data Space Regulation, Essential Requirements for the Harmonised Software Components of EHR Systems from , in 2.4 years

It reaches you if you are the manufacturer of an EHR system, meaning software, or hardware and software together, that stores, intermediates, exports, imports, converts, edits or views personal electronic health data of the priority categories and is intended for use by healthcare providers giving patient care or by patients accessing their own data, including a system manufactured and used within a health institution and a system offered as a service (Article 2, point (k), and Article 26(2)); general purpose software used in a healthcare environment is outside Chapter III (Article 25(2)). Ensure that the harmonised software components of your EHR systems, the European interoperability software component and the European logging software component, and the EHR systems themselves to the extent Chapter III sets requirements for them, conform with the essential requirements in Annex II and with the common specifications adopted under Article 36 (Article 30(1), point (a)).

If you make a wellness application, a medical device, an in vitro diagnostic medical device or an AI system and claim interoperability with EHR systems, meet the Annex II essential requirements mutatis mutandis (Annex II, introductory sentence).

European Union L-Category Vehicles, Protection Against Cyberattacks Under UN Regulation No 155 (Annex XVIII to Delegated Regulation (EU) No 44/2014) from , in 13 months

It reaches you if you are a manufacturer of two- and three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles of categories L1e, L2e, L3e, L4e, L5e, L6e or L7e, other than L1e vehicles designed to pedal referred to in Article 3, point (94)(b), of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013: ensure the vehicle meets all the relevant requirements of UN Regulation No 155 on cyber security and cyber security management system (point 1.2).

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Finland Laki sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon asiakastietojen käsittelystä, Essential Requirements and Certification of Health and Social Care Information Systems

Do not put a Class A system or application into production use until it is certified and registered, or after its information-security assessment certificate has expired (section 81).

For a Class B system, give a written statement that, properly installed, maintained and used, it meets the essential requirements for its purpose (section 85).

Greece Law 4961/2022 (Ν. 4961/2022), Chapter Γ' of Part B, Cybersecurity of Internet of Things Devices

As a manufacturer, supply each such device with a declaration of conformity to the technical security specifications set by ministerial decision under Article 113, paragraph 12α, together with instructions for use and security information that end users can easily understand, keep the declaration, and give it to the National Cybersecurity Authority or the competent response team on request (Article 33(1) to (3)).

As a manufacturer that learns a device does not comply with those specifications, inform the importer, the National Cybersecurity Authority and the competent response team immediately (Article 33(5)).

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Ireland European Union (Radio Equipment) Regulations 2026, Essential Requirements for Internet-Connected Radio Equipment

If you make available on the Irish market, or put into service, radio equipment in a class or category covered by a Commission delegated act under Article 3(3) of the Radio Equipment Directive, make it comply with the Article 3(3)(a) to (i) essential requirements that the delegated act requires (S.I. No. 14 of 2026, regulation 4(5)).

Make radio equipment available on the market, or put it into service, only if it complies with the Regulations, when properly installed, maintained and used in accordance with its intended purpose (regulation 4(3) and (4)).

Vulnerability and incident reporting

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European Union DORA Technical Standards on the Standard Forms, Templates and Procedures for Reporting Major ICT-Related Incidents and Notifying Significant Cyber Threats

If you outsource the obligation to report major ICT-related incidents under Article 19(5) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, inform your competent authority of the arrangement as soon as it is concluded and at the latest before the first notification or report, with the name, contact details and identification code of the third party that will submit the reports, and inform the authority as soon as you no longer outsource the reporting (Article 6).

Ghana Cybersecurity Act, Duty to Report Cybersecurity Incident

Where the institution is itself a cybersecurity service provider licensed by the Authority, also submit a periodic report on its operations, including any cybersecurity incident, within the period the Authority sets.

Jordan Cyber Security Law No. 16 of 2019, Article 8 private-sector incident-reporting and Center-cooperation duty

Adhere to the policies, standards, and controls the Center issues for the institution's own sector, provide the Center the information it needs to do its work, and inform the Center of any incident that threatens cybersecurity or the security of cyberspace, taking every step necessary to prevent or avoid it.

Luxembourg Loi du 20 décembre 2024, Cybersecurity Certification Authority and Vulnerability Notices

Give ILNAS access to any document, person, equipment, premises, installation, site and means of transport it needs for its tasks (Article 5(1)).

If you are an accredited conformity assessment body, inform ILNAS of your accreditation and of the certificates you issue within 72 hours (Article 6).

Mongolia Law on Cyber Security, Cyber-Attack Notification Duty for Other Legal Persons

Abide by the Government's common procedure for ensuring, preventing, detecting and countering cyber-attacks once the Government adopts it under Article 7.1.

Comply with the recommendations and requirements the relevant authorities issue to you in relation to ensuring cyber security.

Ukraine Law on the Basic Principles of Ensuring Cybersecurity, CERT-UA Incident Notification Duty

Where the incident information you exchange with CERT-UA or another party contains personal data, handle that exchange under the requirements of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data.

United States Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting (DFARS 252.204-7012)

If this clause applies to your organization, provide adequate security on every covered contractor information system, implementing the security requirements of NIST Special Publication 800-171 unless the system is part of an information technology service the government operates on its own behalf, in which case follow the security requirements stated elsewhere in the contract.

Full text of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, public domain (a US government work). Every control of the framework.