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NIST CSF 2.0, GovernGV.RR-01

Organizational leadership is responsible and accountable for cybersecurity risk and fosters a culture that is risk-aware, ethical, and continually improvingNIST Cybersecurity Framework, version 2.0, February 2024 (NIST CSWP 29), GV.RR-01

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  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • European Union
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • New York
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Taiwan
  • United States

Sector security regimes

31 laws, 25 jurisdictions
JurisdictionLawWhat it asks, as read here
Austria Netz- und Informationssystemsicherheitsgesetz 2026 (NISG 2026), Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Have your management body implement and oversee these measures and attend cybersecurity training designed for it, and offer your staff regular training.

Belgium Loi du 26 avril 2024, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Have your management body approve these risk-management measures, supervise their implementation, and answer for a violation of this duty; you remain responsible for your own risk analysis and for the choice and implementation of the measures.

Bulgaria Cybersecurity Act, Risk-Management Measures and Governance (Zakon za kibersigurnost, ZKS)

Have your management body approve and oversee these measures, and have every member of your management body complete cybersecurity training every two years and organise the same training for your staff; a member who fails to do so faces a personal fine of EUR 500 to 5,000.

Canada OSFI Guideline B-13, Technology and Cyber Risk Management

Assign responsibility for technology and cyber risk to senior officers, with an organizational structure, resources and training suited to managing that risk across the institution.

Croatia Zakon o kibernetičkoj sigurnosti, Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Have the members of your management body, or, if you are a public entity, the heads of your state administration or local self-government body, approve these measures and control their implementation, and have them attend, and make available to your staff, appropriate cybersecurity training covering risk-management issues and their effect on your services.

Croatia Zakon o provedbi Uredbe (EU) 2022/2554, Competent Authorities, Incident Reporting and Fines for Financial Entities

Set up the internal governance and control framework that ensures effective and prudent management of ICT risk, as DORA Article 5(1) requires (Article 19(1), item 1).

Cyprus Security of Networks and Information Systems Law, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Have your senior management approve these risk-management measures and oversee their implementation; senior management can be held accountable for the entity's breach of this duty, and must undergo, and offer staff, regular training so they can identify risks and assess cybersecurity risk-management practices.

Czech Republic Decree on the Security Measures of a Provider of a Regulated Service in the Higher-Obligations Regime (Vyhláška č. 409/2025 Sb.)

Have your statutory body or equivalent top management complete the training under Section 10(3)(a) and see that the security policy and the objectives of the management system are set (Section 4).

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

Have your management body approve the measures and supervise their implementation, and have its members attend courses on managing information-security risks (Section 6).

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

Have your management board (ledelsesorgan) approve these measures and oversee their implementation, and ensure its members attend relevant cybersecurity risk-management training and encourage similar training for your other staff.

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Estonia Küberturvalisuse seadus (KüTS), System Security Measures and Management-Body Duties

Designate at least one management board member (or, if you have only one, that member, or the equivalent office-holder if you have no board) to approve your security measures, monitor their implementation and answer for that duty, and have that person complete regular training to understand and assess cyber risk, its impact on your services, and how to manage it.

European Union Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1645, Information Security Management System for Design, Production and Aerodrome Organizations (Part-IS.D.OR)

Have the accountable manager or, for a design organization, the head of the design organization ensure that the resources needed to comply are available, establish and promote the information security policy, and appoint a person or group of persons to ensure compliance and to manage the compliance monitoring function (points IS.D.OR.240(a) to (c)).

European Union Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/203, Information Security Management System for Aviation Organizations (Part-IS.I.OR)

Have the accountable manager ensure that the resources needed to comply are available, establish and promote the information security policy, and appoint a person or group of persons to ensure compliance and to manage the compliance monitoring function (points IS.I.OR.240(a) to (c)).

European Union DORA, Articles 5-16 (ICT Risk Management Framework)

Have in place an internal governance and control framework that ensures an effective and prudent management of ICT risk. Have your management body define, approve, oversee and answer for all arrangements under the ICT risk management framework, bear the ultimate responsibility for managing ICT risk, set and approve the digital operational resilience strategy and risk tolerance level, and approve and review your ICT business continuity policy, response and recovery plans, ICT internal audit plans and policy on the use of ICT third-party services (Article 5(1) and (2)).

European Union NIS2 Directive, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Have your management body approve these measures, oversee their implementation, and complete cybersecurity training.

Finland Kyberturvallisuuslaki, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Have your board, supervisory board or chief executive approve and oversee this operating model; they must hold sufficient familiarity with cybersecurity risk management to do so.

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

In the text the Sénat adopted, take technical, operational and organisational measures appropriate and proportionate to the risks facing the network and information systems you use for your activities or services: have your management body approve and oversee the security measures and receive cybersecurity training, protect your networks and systems including where you use a subcontractor, put in place tools and procedures to defend your networks and handle incidents, and ensure the resilience of your activities.

Germany BSI-Gesetz (BSIG), Risk-Management Measures for Essential and Important Entities

Have your management body implement and oversee these measures and attend regular risk-management training; expect it to be liable to your organisation for culpable damage from a breach of that duty under the ordinary rules of company law.

Germany Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG), Section 165 Technical and Organisational Protective Measures

If you are an essential or important entity under Section 28 of the BSI Act, base those measures on an all-hazards approach that covers at least risk analysis and security concepts, incident handling, business continuity, supply-chain security, security in acquisition, development and maintenance including vulnerability management and disclosure, effectiveness assessment, basic cyber hygiene and training, cryptography, personnel security and access control, and multi-factor or continuous authentication (Section 165(2a)); have your management implement and monitor them and take part in regular training (Section 165(2b) and (2d)).

Greece Law 5160/2024, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Within three months of this duty's entry into force, have your management body approve the cybersecurity risk-management measures you take to comply with the measures below, supervise their implementation, and ensure every board member receives training and that equivalent training reaches your staff at least annually.

Ireland National Cyber Security Bill, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures proposed

Take appropriate and proportionate technical, operational and organisational measures to manage the risks to the network and information systems you use for your operations or services, with your management board approving and overseeing those measures.

Italy Decreto Legislativo 4 settembre 2024, n. 138 (Decreto NIS2), Risk-Management Measures

Have your management and governing bodies approve how these measures are implemented and oversee their implementation, see that they attend cybersecurity training, and promote similar training for your employees.

Latvia Latvijas Bankas noteikumi Nr. 409, ICT Resilience Requirements Outside DORA

Introduce and document an ICT risk-management and control framework for which your management bears overall responsibility, and apply it in proportion to your scope, staff, services and use of ICT (points 3, 5 and 6).

Liechtenstein Cyber-Sicherheitsgesetz (CSG), Risk-Management Measures for Essential and Important Entities

Have your leadership body (Leitungsorgan) approve and oversee these measures and attend, and offer your staff, regular training on recognising and assessing cybersecurity risk and risk-management practice.

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

Have your management body approve these risk-management measures, oversee their implementation, and complete regular training on assessing risk and risk-management practice; expect the body to be held liable for the entity's violation of this duty.

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

Have your management body approve the risk-management measures and oversee their implementation, have its members follow cybersecurity risk-management training, and offer similar training to your employees on a regular basis; the natural persons composing the management body may be held liable for an infringement of article 19 (article 18).

Netherlands Cyberbeveiligingswet, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Have your management board approve these measures, and ensure every board member holds the knowledge and skills to identify network-and-information-system risks, assess your cybersecurity risk-management measures, and assess their consequences for your services, within two years of this duty taking effect or, for a member appointed afterwards, within two years of appointment.

Poland Ustawa o krajowym systemie cyberbezpieczeństwa (KSC), System Zarządzania Bezpieczeństwem Informacji from , in 5 months

Have the entity's management implement and oversee the system, proportionate to the assessed risk, the entity's size, the cost of implementation, and the likelihood and severity of an incident.

Portugal Regime Jurídico da Cibersegurança, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Have your management, direction and administration body approve these measures, supervise their implementation, ensure compliance with supervision and enforcement obligations, and ensure regular cybersecurity training; know that a member of that body can be held personally liable, by act or omission, on a finding of intent or gross negligence, for an infringement of this Decree-Law, and that this responsibility cannot be delegated away.

Romania Ordonanța de urgență nr. 155/2024, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Have your governing body approve these measures, supervise their implementation and bear responsibility for them; have each member of the governing body attend accredited cybersecurity training and train all your staff regularly; establish permanent means of contact and allocate the resources the measures need; and designate the officers responsible for network and information-system security within 30 days of the notification of the DNSC director's decision identifying you and entering you in the register.

Taiwan Bank and Financial Holding Company Internal Control Rules, Dedicated Information Security Unit

Appoint a deputy general manager or equivalent as Chief Information Security Officer over that unit, and have that officer report the prior year's overall information-security performance to the board of directors annually and report a material information-security problem promptly when it arises.

Vulnerability and incident reporting

2 laws, 2 jurisdictions
JurisdictionLawWhat it asks, as read here
New York New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation, Notices to the Superintendent

By April 15 of each year, submit to the Superintendent electronically either a written certification that you materially complied with this Part for the prior calendar year or a written acknowledgment identifying the sections you did not materially comply with and a remediation timeline, each signed by your highest-ranking executive and your Chief Information Security Officer.

United States SEC Cybersecurity Risk Management, Governance, and Incident Disclosure (Regulation S-K Item 106; Form 8-K Item 1.05)

Separately, describe in your annual report, under Regulation S-K Item 106, your processes for assessing, identifying and managing material cybersecurity risks and your board's and management's oversight of those risks.

Security baseline statutes

1 law, 1 jurisdiction
JurisdictionLawWhat it asks, as read here
Indonesia Government Regulation on the Operation of Electronic Systems and Transactions, electronic-system security duty

Operate your Electronic System reliably and securely, and take legal responsibility for it operating as it should.

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