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NIST CSF 2.0, GovernGV.RR-02

Roles, responsibilities, and authorities related to cybersecurity risk management are established, communicated, understood, and enforcedNIST Cybersecurity Framework, version 2.0, February 2024 (NIST CSWP 29), GV.RR-02

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  • Albania
  • China
  • Cuba
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • European Union
  • Greece
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Israel
  • Kiribati
  • Kuwait
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lithuania
  • Malta
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Montenegro
  • Mozambique
  • New York
  • Romania
  • Spain
  • Taiwan
  • Utah

Sector security regimes

20 laws, 16 jurisdictions
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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.

Côte d'Ivoire RGSSI and PPIC Compliance Duty

Where you are designated and notified as a critical-infrastructure operator or manager, renew a complete risk analysis of your critical infrastructure at least every six months and designate a cybersecurity focal point, a designation this vocabulary does not separately express.

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 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690, Technical and Methodological Requirements for NIS2 Risk-Management Measures

Maintain a policy on the security of network and information systems that your management bodies approve and review at least annually and when significant incidents or significant changes to operations or risks occur, and have at least one person report directly to your management bodies on network and information system security (Annex points 1.1.1(k), 1.1.2 and 1.2.3).

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

Keep the members of your management body up to date with sufficient knowledge and skills to understand and assess ICT risk, including through specific training on a regular basis. Unless you are a microenterprise, establish a role, or designate a member of senior management, to monitor the arrangements with ICT third-party service providers (Article 5(3) and (4)).

Unless you are a microenterprise, assign responsibility for managing and overseeing ICT risk to a control function with an appropriate level of independence, keep ICT risk management, control and internal audit functions segregated, have the framework audited internally on a regular basis by auditors with sufficient knowledge, skills and expertise in ICT risk, and establish a formal follow-up process for critical ICT audit findings (Article 6(4), (6) and (7)).

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

Designate a qualified staff member as ICT Security Officer (Υ.Α.Σ.Π.Ε.), who manages communications with the National Cybersecurity Authority and coordinates compliance and incident reporting internally, keep a unified cybersecurity policy (an essential entity submits it to the Authority for approval at least annually), and keep an inventory of your information and communication assets ranked by criticality.

Haiti BRH Circulaire 126, Information Security Rules for Financial Institutions

Maintain an information-security committee (or, for a non-bank financial institution, have your board of directors perform this function) to validate and approve the security measures your policy adopts.

Designate an information-security officer independent of the IT department, reporting to risk management or directly to general management, with the data and access needed to do the job.

Hungary Cybersecurity Act, Risk-Management Measures

Survey and register every electronic information system, central service and supporting system you use, appoint or designate the person responsible for the security of those systems, classify them into a security category, and apply protective measures proportionate to their risk.

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

Appoint a member of senior management as Chief Information Security Officer, and develop, implement, communicate to staff and keep records of technical and organisational policies, practices and processes to manage risk to your network and information infrastructure and to prevent, mitigate and remedy a cybersecurity incident.

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Latvia Nacionālās kiberdrošības likums, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Have your head or governing body appoint a cybersecurity manager within three months of notifying your essential- or important-provider status or of the National Cybersecurity Centre's decision on it, and notify the National Cybersecurity Centre and the Constitution Protection Bureau of the appointment within five working days.

Lebanon Banque du Liban Basic Circular No. 144 (Prevention of Electronic Criminal Acts)

Maintain a Compliance Department responsible for implementing this Decision.

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

Designate a cybersecurity manager and/or security officer who organises your risk assessment and prepares your risk-assessment reports and risk-management plans for approval, and have your management body, head and designated representative complete cybersecurity training at least once every two years.

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

Appoint a security liaison officer with the necessary expertise, who develops and maintains your business continuity plans, ensures risk assessments are carried out, maintains and exercises your operator security plan and acts as your point of contact with the CIP Department or the designated competent authority (article 19(1)(c)).

Mozambique Cybersecurity Law, Sector-Specific Security Requirements for Critical Infrastructure, Essential Services and Digital Providers

If you are a private critical-infrastructure operator, additionally establish an institutional CSIRT.

New York DFS Guidance: How to Conduct and Use Risk Assessments Required by the DFS Cybersecurity Regulation

The Department says your written policies and procedures must be approved at least annually by a senior officer or your senior governing body, that, where applicable, you must designate a chief information security officer or a senior officer to oversee the risk assessment process, and that the chief information security officer must report material cybersecurity risks to the senior governing body (23 NYCRR 500.4(b)(3)); it adds that Part 500 does not require formal approval of risk assessments from a board of directors or senior management.

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.

Spain Anteproyecto de Ley de Coordinación y Gobernanza de la Ciberseguridad, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures proposed

As drafted, the Anteproyecto would require you to designate a responsable de la seguridad de la informacion (information security officer) as your point of contact and technical coordinator, with accredited personnel in that role where your entity is classified as essential.

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.

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

Establish a dedicated information security unit reporting to the general manager, that does not also handle information-technology operations or any other function creating a conflict of interest, staffed with adequate personnel and equipment.

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.

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Security baseline statutes

9 laws, 9 jurisdictions
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China Data Security Law, Data Security Protection Obligations

If you process important data, an official classification this corpus cannot flag against on its own, designate a person responsible for data security and a managing body, and implement that responsibility.

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

If you provide Internet access service, additionally draft internal security-operation procedures, name the person responsible for network security, and adopt technical and organizational measures against malware contamination and network attacks and intrusions.

Israel Privacy Protection Regulations (Data Security), information security programme

At the medium or high tier, run an automatic mechanism monitoring access to the database's systems, retained at least 24 months, and appoint a data security officer where required.

Kuwait Data Classification Policy

Form a data classification team including your information security and information technology leads, and direct employees to report immediately any breach of this classification scheme, recording it with the corrective action taken.

Massachusetts Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth

Designate one or more employees to maintain the WISP; identify and assess foreseeable internal and external risks to personal information and evaluate whether your safeguards limit them; train employees; discipline violations; cut off a terminated employee's access to records; restrict and secure physical access to records; review the WISP's scope at least annually or after a material change in business practice; document your response to any security-breach incident; and select only third-party service providers capable of maintaining appropriate security measures, requiring those measures by contract.

Michigan Senate Bill 360 (2025-2026), Identity Theft Protection Act reasonable security procedures duty proposed

As passed by the Senate, a person (any private entity) or agency (a Michigan state government unit) that owns, possesses, collects, or accesses personal information must implement and maintain reasonable security procedures: designate a security coordinator, identify internal and external risks, include appropriate safeguards addressing those risks, assess the safeguards' effectiveness, contractually require every service provider to maintain safeguards conforming to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 or another industry-standard framework, and evaluate and adjust the procedures for changed circumstances.

Montenegro Law on Information Security, General Security Measures

Designate an employee to monitor your compliance with these measures (Article 18(3)).

Mozambique Cybersecurity Law, General Security Requirements for the Public Administration and the Private Sector

Name a person responsible for information security and stand up a team dedicated to detecting and responding to security incidents.

If you are part of the Public Administration or the Private Sector at large, rather than one of the specifically named operator categories, also name an internal cybersecurity auditor, adopt an institutional information-security policy, and establish an institutional CSIRT.

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.

Vulnerability and incident reporting

2 laws, 2 jurisdictions
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European Union Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1366, Cybersecurity Network Code for Cross-Border Electricity Flows: Information Sharing on Cyber-Attacks and Threats

Designate a single point of contact at entity level for information sharing (Article 38(1), point (c)).

India CERT-In Cyber Security Directions, Incident Reporting, Logging and Time Synchronisation

Designate a Point of Contact to interface with CERT-In, using the format CERT-In publishes, and keep that designation current.

Product security requirements

1 law, 1 jurisdiction
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Greece Law 4961/2022 (Ν. 4961/2022), Chapter Γ' of Part B, Cybersecurity of Internet of Things Devices

If you are an operator of essential services, a digital service provider or a local government organization using such devices, use them in accordance with the technical security specifications, appoint an Internet of Things Security Officer, keep a register of the devices you use and update it annually, suspend use of a device that presents a risk, and carry out a data protection impact assessment of the related processing (Articles 35, 37(2), 38 and 41(2)).

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