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NIST CSF 2.0, GovernGV.SC-05

Requirements to address cybersecurity risks in supply chains are established, prioritized, and integrated into contracts and other types of agreements with suppliers and other relevant third partiesNIST Cybersecurity Framework, version 2.0, February 2024 (NIST CSWP 29), GV.SC-05

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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  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cabo Verde
  • California
  • Canada
  • China
  • Colorado
  • Comoros
  • Czech Republic
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • District of Columbia
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • European Union
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Illinois
  • Israel
  • Jamaica
  • Latvia
  • Lesotho
  • Madagascar
  • Mali
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Mauritania
  • Michigan
  • Morocco
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Niger
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Rhode Island
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • South Africa
  • Togo
  • Uganda
  • United States

Comprehensive regime

29 laws, 29 jurisdictions
JurisdictionLawWhat it asks, as read here
Albania Law No. 124/2024 On the Protection of Personal Data

Keep personal data confidential wherever an employee or processor has access to it for professional reasons, bind that confidentiality into every processor contract and employment contract, and continue it after the contract or employment ends.

Algeria Loi n° 18-07 relative à la protection des personnes physiques dans le traitement des données à caractère personnel, modifiée et complétée par la loi n° 25-11

Implement technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, and choose a processor only for the sufficiency of its own security guarantees, governed by a written contract.

Antigua and Barbuda Data Protection Act, 2013

Take practical security steps against loss, misuse, unauthorised or accidental access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of personal data, having regard to its sensitivity, where it is stored, and the reliability of personnel with access, and secure the same guarantees from any data processor you engage.

Benin Loi n°2017-20 portant Code du Numérique en République du Bénin, Livre V (protection des données à caractère personnel)

Choose a processor offering sufficient security and confidentiality guarantees, fix the processor's obligations in a written contract, and ensure the processor acts only on your documented instructions.

Burkina Faso Loi n°001-2021/AN du 30 mars 2021 portant protection des personnes à l'égard du traitement des données à caractère personnel

Before using a processor, choose one that offers sufficient guarantees of protection, and sign a written agreement with it fixing the processing operations it may carry out and what happens to the data when the contract ends.

Cabo Verde Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data

Implement technical and organizational measures adequate to the risks and the nature of the data to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and choose a processor offering sufficient guarantees about those measures.

Comoros Law on the Protection of Personal Data

Confine a sub processor to your instructions under a contract addressing security and confidentiality, without relieving yourself of the duty to see those measures respected.

Democratic Republic of the Congo Digital Code, Title III: Personal Data Protection

Govern any processor's engagement by a written contract confining it to your documented instructions, and require the processor not to engage a sub-processor without your prior written authorization.

Eswatini Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 5 of 2022)

Take appropriate, reasonable technical and administrative measures to secure the integrity of personal information in your possession or under your control against loss, modification, damage, unauthorised destruction or unlawful access, and govern any data processor who processes information on your behalf by a written contract that requires the same measures.

Gabon Loi n°001/2011 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel, modifiée par la loi n°025/2023

Keep processing confidential, bind everyone who processes the data under your authority to a signed written undertaking, and impose the same security and confidentiality guarantees on any processor by contract.

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Gambia Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2025 from a date not yet set

Use only a processor that provides sufficient guarantees of compliance, govern the engagement by a contract setting out the subject matter, duration, nature and purpose of the processing, and do not engage a sub-processor without the controller's prior written authorisation.

Ghana Data Protection Act

Take appropriate, reasonable technical and organisational measures to secure personal data against loss, damage, unauthorised destruction, and unlawful access, and require a data processor acting on your behalf to maintain the same measures under a written contract.

Grenada Data Protection Act, No. 1 of 2023 from a date not yet set

Take practical steps to secure personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or destruction, and obtain a data processor's own security guarantees before letting it process personal data on your behalf.

Jamaica Data Protection Act, 2020, registration, lawful basis and standards for processing

Engage a data processor only under a written contract under which it acts on your instructions alone and carries obligations equivalent to your own security measures.

Lesotho Data Protection Act, 2011 (Act No. 5 of 2012)

Take appropriate, reasonable technical measures to secure the integrity of personal information in your possession or under your control against loss, damage, unauthorised destruction or unlawful access, and govern any agent who processes information on your behalf by a written contract that requires the same measures.

Madagascar Law No. 2014-038, protection of personal data

Process data on a subcontractor's behalf only on the controller's instructions, and use only a subcontractor that offers sufficient guarantees to implement the required security measures.

Mali Loi n° 2013-015, protection des données à caractère personnel

Take every precaution useful to preserve the security of personal data, including preventing unauthorized access, deformation, or damage, and use a processor only where it offers sufficient security and confidentiality guarantees, which does not relieve you of your own duty to see those guarantees are met.

Mauritania Loi n° 2017-020, protection des données à caractère personnel

Choose a sub-processor offering sufficient guarantees, bind them by a written act limited to your instructions, and extend the confidentiality duty to anyone who takes part in the sub-processing.

Morocco Law No. 09-08 on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data

Bind any processor you use to security guarantees equivalent to your own by contract, and hold anyone with authorized access to personal data, including after they leave that role, to professional secrecy.

Niger Loi n° 2022-59, protection des données à caractère personnel

Choose a processor that offers sufficient security and confidentiality guarantees, govern its processing under a written confidentiality contract, and hold it to the same obligations that bind you.

Republic of the Congo Law No. 29-2019 on the Protection of Personal Data

Choose a processor offering sufficient technical and organisational security guarantees, govern the engagement by a written contract confining the processor to your instructions, and process personal data under your own or the processor's authority only on the controller's instructions.

Rwanda Law relating to the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy

Enter into a written contract with a data processor before it processes personal data on your behalf, and authorise only a processor who gives sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures.

Saint Kitts and Nevis Data Protection Act, 2018 from a date not yet set

Take practical steps to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or destruction, having regard to the nature of the data, its storage, and the personnel with access to it, and require a data processor you engage to give sufficient security guarantees and comply with them.

Sao Tome and Principe Lei n.º 03/2016, Protecção de Dados Pessoais

Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, unauthorized alteration, disclosure or access to personal data, choose a subcontractor offering sufficient guarantees, bind it by contract to your instructions and the same measures, and record that contract in a document with legally recognized probative value.

Senegal Loi n° 2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008 sur la Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (Personal Data Protection Act)

Choose a sub-processor offering sufficient guarantees, bind them by a written contract limited to your instructions, and keep processing confidential and restricted to authorized staff.

Serbia Law on Personal Data Protection

Engage only a processor who guarantees appropriate technical, organizational and staff measures under a written processing agreement, and never let a processor act outside a controller's documented instructions.

South Africa Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA)

Where an operator processes personal information on your behalf, bind it by written contract to the same security measures, and require it to notify you immediately if it has reasonable grounds to believe the information was accessed or acquired by an unauthorised person.

Togo Loi n° 2019-014, protection des données à caractère personnel

Choose a processor that offers sufficient guarantees, govern the engagement with a written contract confining the processor to your instructions, and keep processing confidential under the authority of persons who have signed a written confidentiality undertaking.

Uganda Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, comprehensive personal-data regime

Do not let a data processor handle personal data on your behalf unless it has established and complies with this Act's security measures, and require that in your contract with the processor.

Security baseline statutes

11 laws, 11 jurisdictions
JurisdictionLawWhat it asks, as read here
Colorado Protection of personal identifying information, reasonable security procedures duty

Where personal identifying information is disclosed to a third-party service provider, require that provider to implement and maintain its own reasonable security procedures and practices, unless the covered entity retains primary responsibility and implements technical controls that protect the information from unauthorized access or effectively eliminate the third party's ability to access it.

District of Columbia Security requirements for personal information (Security Breach Protection Amendment Act of 2020)

If you disclose a District resident's personal information to a nonaffiliated third-party service provider, require by written agreement that the third party implement and maintain its own reasonable security procedures and practices over that information.

Illinois Personal Information Protection Act, data security duty

Require, by contract, that any party to whom personal information is disclosed also implement and maintain reasonable security measures over it.

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

Where an external service provider is given access to the database, agree in writing on the data and systems it may access, its reporting and data-destruction duties, and monitor its compliance.

Maryland Maryland Personal Information Protection Act (MPIPA), safeguards and secure-disposal duty

Where a nonaffiliated third-party service provider will receive personal information under a written contract entered into on or after , require by that contract that the provider also implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the information disclosed.

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.

Nebraska Financial Data Protection and Consumer Notification of Data Security Breach Act, security procedures and practices duty

Where personal information is disclosed to a nonaffiliated third-party service provider, require by contract that the provider implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices of its own, appropriate to the nature of the information disclosed and reasonably designed to protect it from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

Nevada Security measures for data collectors maintaining personal information

Require, by contract, any person to whom you disclose a Nevada resident's personal information to implement and maintain the same reasonable security measures.

New Mexico Data Breach Notification Act, security and disposal duties

Where personal identifying information is disclosed to a service provider under a contract, require by that contract that the service provider also implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information.

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Rhode Island Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015, risk-based information security program

If you disclose personal information about a Rhode Island resident to a nonaffiliated third party, require by written contract that the third party implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices of the same kind, appropriate to its own size and scope, the nature of the information, and the purpose for which it was collected.

Sector security regimes

9 laws, 6 jurisdictions
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Canada OSFI Guideline B-10, Third-Party Risk Management

Enter into written arrangements that set out the rights and responsibilities of each party, and make sure the arrangements give you timely access to accurate and comprehensive information to oversee the third party's performance and risks, including a right to conduct or commission an independent audit of the third party.

Establish and maintain measures with the third party to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of records and data throughout the arrangement.

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Czech Republic Cybersecurity Act (Zákon o kybernetické bezpečnosti), Risk-Management Security Measures

Where a supplier implements a security measure on your behalf, select that supplier consistent with the measure's requirements and write those requirements into your contract with the supplier.

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

Establish a supply chain security policy that governs your relations with your direct suppliers and service providers, and ensure, where appropriate, that your contracts with them specify an obligation to notify you without undue delay of incidents that present a risk to the security of your network and information systems (points 5.1.1 and 5.1.4(d)).

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

Ensure that contracts with external testers require a sound management of the TLPT results and that any data processing, including generation, storage, aggregation, drafting, reporting, communication or destruction, does not create risks to you (Article 27(3)).

European Union DORA, Articles 28-30 (ICT Third-Party Risk Management)

Put every ICT services contract in writing in one document, covering at minimum the functions and locations involved, data-protection and access-on-termination provisions, service levels, the provider's duty to assist you on an incident and to cooperate with your regulators, termination rights, and your security-awareness programme.

For a contract supporting a critical or important function, add quantitative service level targets, an unrestricted right to monitor, inspect and audit the provider, the provider's cooperation in your threat-led penetration testing, and an exit strategy with a mandatory transition period. If you are a microenterprise, you and the provider may agree that your access, inspection and audit rights are delegated to an independent third party the provider appoints.

France Loi n° 2024-449 (SREN), Security Criteria for State Use of Private Cloud Services Holding Sensitive Data

Where the system or application processes data of particular sensitivity (data protected as secrets by law, or data needed for the State's essential missions) and a breach could harm public order, public security, health or life, or intellectual property protection, see that the cloud service applies security and data-protection criteria that protect the data against access by the public authorities of third States not authorized by Union or Member State law (Article 31, I and II).

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

Draw up, document and implement an information security policy and set the ICT security measures that follow from it, including those your ICT service providers must apply (points 8 and 9).

New York DFS Guidance: Cybersecurity Risks Arising from Artificial Intelligence and Strategies to Combat Related Risks

The Department says your third-party service provider policies should include due diligence guidelines before you use a provider with access to your information systems or nonpublic information, strongly recommends that you consider the threats AI poses to those providers, and says you should require providers to give timely notice of any cybersecurity event that directly impacts your information systems or the nonpublic information they hold, and should consider additional representations and warranties where providers use AI.

New York New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation, Third-Party Service Provider Security Policy

Include in those policies relevant guidelines for due diligence or contractual protections, addressing to the extent applicable each provider's access controls (including its use of multi-factor authentication), its use of encryption to protect nonpublic information in transit and at rest, notice to you of a cybersecurity event directly impacting your information systems or your nonpublic information the provider holds, and representations and warranties about its cybersecurity policies and procedures.

Vulnerability and incident reporting

3 laws, 3 jurisdictions
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China National Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Measures

Where an organization or individual provides you network-security or system-operation-and-maintenance services under contract, require that provider by contract to promptly report to you any cybersecurity incident it discovers through monitoring, and to assist your own reporting under these Measures; this is the paragraph that reaches a cloud host, managed-security vendor, or AI operator serving you as its customer.

Estonia Küberturvalisuse seadus (KüTS), Duty to Notify of a Cyber Incident

Where you delegate the administration of your system to another person or host it with another person, make sure that person notifies you within 24 hours of becoming aware of a cyber incident that has, or could reasonably be expected to have, a significant effect on your system's security or your service's continuity (Section 8, subsection 1-1).

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

Include this clause, unaltered except to identify the parties, in every subcontract or similar contractual instrument that involves covered defense information or operationally critical support, including a subcontract for a commercial product or service.

Where an external cloud service provider stores, processes, or transmits covered defense information for you, require that provider by contract to meet security requirements equivalent to the FedRAMP Moderate baseline and to carry out the same incident reporting, malicious software, media preservation, forensic access, and damage assessment duties this clause places on you.

Breach notification

1 law, 1 jurisdiction
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Jamaica Data Protection Act, 2020, reporting a contravention or security breach

Engage a data processor only where it gives sufficient guarantees as to the reporting of security breaches to you, under a written contract binding it to obligations equivalent to your own.

Cross border transfer

1 law, 1 jurisdiction
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Burkina Faso Personal Data Protection Law, cross-border transfer of personal data

Before any transfer of personal data outside Burkina Faso, obtain the CIL's authorization, sign a data confidentiality and reversibility clause with the receiving party letting data migrate back fully at the end of the contract, and put in place technical and organizational security measures covering encryption, availability, confidentiality, integrity and resilience.

Sensitive categories

1 law, 1 jurisdiction
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California AB 1159 (2026), student personal information (KOPIPA, ELPIPA and the Higher Education Student Information Protection Act) from , in 7 weeks

Disclose covered information only as Section 22584(b)(4) permits, and when you disclose it to a service provider, bind the provider by contract not to use it for any other purpose, not to disclose it to later third parties, and to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices (Section 22584(b)(4)(E)).

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