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NIST Privacy Framework, Protect-PPR.PO-P7

Response plans (Incident Response and Business Continuity) and recovery plans (Incident Recovery and Disaster Recovery) are established, in place, and managed.NIST Privacy Framework, version 1.0, January 2020, PR.PO-P7

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Sector security regimes

65 laws, 41 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.

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 Informationssystemsicherheitsgesetz 2026 (NISG 2026), Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Cover at least: risk analysis and information-system security concepts; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems, including vulnerability management and disclosure; effectiveness-assessment policies; basic cyber-hygiene practices and training; cryptography and, where appropriate, encryption policy; personnel security, access control and asset management; and multi-factor or continuous authentication.

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

Cover at minimum: policies on risk analysis and information-system security; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security, including the direct suppliers and service providers you rely on; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your network and information systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies to assess the effectiveness of your risk-management measures; basic cyber-hygiene practices and cybersecurity training; policies on the use of cryptography and, where applicable, encryption; personnel security, access-control policies and asset management; multi-factor or continuous authentication and secure voice, video, text and emergency communications where needed; and your own coordinated vulnerability-disclosure policy.

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

Include in the agreement with the third party the ability to deliver operations through disruption, including maintenance, testing and activation of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and keep contingency plans for critical third-party arrangements.

Monitor third-party arrangements to verify that the third party can keep meeting its obligations and managing risks, and keep documented processes with the third party to identify, investigate, escalate, track and remediate incidents.

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

Detect, log, manage, resolve, monitor and report on technology incidents, and minimize their impact.

Establish and maintain an enterprise disaster recovery program, and validate it against severe but plausible scenarios that test your backup and recovery capabilities and critical third-party technologies and integration points.

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

Take risk-management measures sized to your exposure, covering at minimum: risk-analysis and information-system-security policies, incident-handling procedures (monitoring, logging and reporting), business continuity including backup management and disaster recovery, supply-chain security accounting for your direct suppliers' and service providers' vulnerabilities, security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems including vulnerability handling and disclosure, policies to evaluate the effectiveness of your own measures, basic cyber-hygiene practices and training, cryptography and encryption policies, human-resources security and access control including asset inventories, and, where appropriate, multi-factor or continuous authentication and secured communications.

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

Cover at least: risk-analysis and information-system security policies; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security, including the security of your relationships with your direct suppliers and service providers; secure acquisition, development and maintenance of systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies to assess the effectiveness of these measures; basic cyber hygiene practices and cybersecurity training; cryptography and, where appropriate, encryption policies; human-resources security, access-control policies and asset management; and, where appropriate, multi-factor or continuous authentication, and secure voice, video, text and emergency communications.

Czech Republic Act No. 32/2025 Coll. (Digitalisation of the Financial Market), DORA Provisions for Banks and Savings and Credit Co-operatives

Cover, among the matters Section 8b(1) of the Banks Act lists, the establishment and management of the networks and information systems you use, as the EU rule on digital operational resilience requires, and ICT business-continuity policies and ICT response and recovery plans that are introduced, managed and tested under DORA Article 11 (Section 8b(1)(f) and (h)).

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

If you are in the higher-obligations regime and do not provide a service listed in Section 18(1), cover at least: an information security management system, top-management requirements, security roles, security-policy and documentation management, asset management, risk management, supplier management, human-resources security, change management, acquisition and development security, access management, handling of cybersecurity events and incidents, business-continuity management and cybersecurity auditing, plus physical security, communications-network security, identity administration and access-rights management, detection, logging and evaluation of cybersecurity events, application security, cryptographic algorithms, availability assurance, and, where applicable, security of industrial, control or similarly specific technical assets.

If you are in the lower-obligations regime and do not provide a service listed in Section 18(1), a reduced set applies: a minimum cybersecurity assurance system, top-management requirements, asset management, risk management, human-resources security, business-continuity management, access management, identity and authorisation management, detection and logging of cybersecurity events, incident handling, communications-network security, application security, and cryptographic algorithms.

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

Adopt measures on security roles, security policy and documentation, risk management, suppliers, human-resources security, change management, acquisition, development and maintenance, access management, handling of events and incidents, cybersecurity audit, identity administration, detection, logging and evaluation of events, application security, cryptographic algorithms and availability of the regulated service (Sections 5 to 26).

Democratic Republic of the Congo Digital Code, Livre II: Trust Service Provider Security Risk-Management Duty

Prevent and limit the consequences of security incidents, inform the parties concerned of the harmful effects of such incidents, and ensure the continuity of your services in the event of technical failures or cessation of activity.

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

Take appropriate and proportionate technical, operational and organisational measures to manage the risks to the security of the network and information systems you use and to prevent incidents or minimise their impact, covering at least risk-analysis and information-system security policies, incident handling, business continuity, supply-chain security, security in acquisition, development and maintenance including vulnerability handling and disclosure, effectiveness assessment, cyber hygiene and training, cryptography, personnel security, access control and asset management, and multi-factor authentication and secured communications (Section 5(1)).

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

Cover at minimum: risk-analysis and information-system-security policies; incident handling; operational continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security, including your relationship with your direct suppliers and service providers; security in acquiring, developing and maintaining your network and information systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies and procedures for assessing the effectiveness of your cybersecurity risk-management measures; basic cyber-hygiene practices and cybersecurity training; policies and procedures on the use of cryptography and, where relevant, encryption; personnel security, access-control policies and asset management; and, where relevant, multi-factor or continuous authentication, secured voice, video and text communication, and secured internal emergency-communication systems.

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

Develop, manage and test ICT business-continuity policies and ICT response and recovery plans as part of your business continuity plan, in line with DORA Article 11 (Section 82^4(2)).

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

Set up, implement and maintain an information security management system that sets a policy on information security, identifies and reviews information security risks, defines and implements risk treatment measures, implements internal and external reporting schemes, detects information security events, responds to and recovers from incidents, applies the measures the competent authority notifies, addresses its findings, and monitors your compliance (point IS.D.OR.200(a)).

Establish an internal reporting scheme to collect and evaluate information security events, implement measures to detect incidents and vulnerabilities and to respond to events that may develop into an information security incident, and implement measures to recover from incidents (points IS.D.OR.215 and IS.D.OR.220).

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

Set up, implement and maintain an information security management system that sets a policy on information security, identifies and reviews information security risks, defines and implements risk treatment measures, implements internal and external reporting schemes, detects information security events, responds to and recovers from incidents, applies the measures the competent authority notifies, addresses its findings, and monitors your compliance (point IS.I.OR.200(a)).

Establish an internal reporting scheme to collect and evaluate information security events, implement measures to detect incidents and vulnerabilities and to respond to events that may develop into an information security incident, and implement measures to recover from incidents (points IS.I.OR.215 and IS.I.OR.220).

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

Establish and implement an incident handling policy, monitor and log activity on your network and information systems to detect events that could be incidents, assess suspicious events to determine whether they are incidents, and assess the existence of recurring incidents under Article 4 on a quarterly basis (points 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.4.1 and 3.4.2(b)).

Lay down and maintain a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, carry out a business impact analysis, and maintain backup copies of data (points 4.1.1, 4.1.3 and 4.2.1).

European Union Cyber Solidarity Act, European Cybersecurity Alert System, Cybersecurity Emergency Mechanism and Incident Review Mechanism

A user of the EU Cybersecurity Reserve takes all appropriate measures to mitigate the effects of the incident for which it requests support (Article 15(2)).

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

Develop, document and implement an ICT-related incident policy that documents the incident management process, lists the relevant internal and external contacts, sets up mechanisms to support incident management, retains evidence relating to ICT-related incidents in a secure manner, and analyses significant or recurring incidents (Article 22). Set clear roles and responsibilities to detect and respond to ICT-related incidents and anomalous activities, collect, monitor and analyze logs, cyber threat information and incident notifications from ICT third-party service providers, implement tools that generate alerts at least for the ICT assets and information assets supporting critical or important functions, and log the date, time and type of each detected anomalous activity (Article 23).

Include in the ICT business continuity policy the objectives, scope, timeframe, activation and deactivation criteria, governance and recovery objectives set out in Article 24(1). If you are a central counterparty, set a maximum recovery time for your critical functions of not longer than 2 hours. If you are a central securities depository, ensure a recovery time objective of not longer than 2 hours for your critical or important functions. If you are a trading venue, ensure that trading can be resumed within or close to 2 hours of a disruptive incident and that the maximum amount of data lost is close to zero (Article 24(2) to (4)). Test the plans on scenarios that simulate potential disruptions, including severe but plausible scenarios, include the ICT services provided by ICT third-party service providers where applicable, document the results, and report identified deficiencies to the management body (Article 25).

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European Union DORA, Article 17 (ICT-Related Incident Management Process and Recording of Incidents)

Define, establish and implement an ICT-related incident management process to detect, manage and notify ICT-related incidents (Article 17(1)).

Record all ICT-related incidents and significant cyber threats, and establish procedures and processes that ensure consistent and integrated monitoring, handling and follow-up of ICT-related incidents so that root causes are identified, documented and addressed (Article 17(2)).

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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)).

Put in place a comprehensive ICT business continuity policy and ICT response and recovery plans, and conduct a business impact analysis of your exposures to severe business disruptions. Test the continuity and the response and recovery plans at least yearly and on substantive changes to systems supporting critical or important functions, and test your crisis communication plans. Keep readily accessible records of activities before and during disruption events. Unless you are a microenterprise, include cyber-attack and switchover scenarios in the tests, have a crisis management function, and report to your competent authority on request an estimate of the aggregated annual costs and losses caused by major ICT-related incidents (Article 11).

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European Union NIS2 Directive, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Take technical, operational and organisational measures appropriate to the risk your network and information systems face, covering at minimum a risk analysis and information-system-security policy, incident handling, business continuity and crisis management, supply chain security, and security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems.

Maintain basic cyber hygiene practices and cybersecurity training, policies on cryptography and encryption where appropriate, human resources security and access control, and multi-factor authentication or continuous authentication solutions where appropriate.

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

If you have a dedicated interface, ensure that it offers at all times the same level of availability and performance, including support, as the interfaces made available to your users, define transparent key performance indicators and service level targets at least as stringent, do not create obstacles to the provision of payment initiation and account information services, monitor the availability and performance of the interface and publish quarterly statistics on your website, and include in its design a strategy and plans for contingency measures with communication plans for payment service providers using the interface (Articles 32 and 33(1) and (2)).

Finland Kyberturvallisuuslaki, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Maintain a documented cybersecurity risk-management operating model covering at minimum: risk-management policy and effectiveness assessment; network and information system security policy; security in acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; supply-chain security, covering the quality and resilience of your direct suppliers' products and services and their cybersecurity practices; asset management and identification of security-critical functions; personnel security and cybersecurity training; access-control and authentication procedures; cryptography policy and, where needed, measures for secured electronic communication; incident detection and handling; backup, recovery planning, crisis management and business continuity; basic information-security practices; and security of the physical environment and premises and of essential resources.

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

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).

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

Cover each of: the security of your systems and installations; incident management; business-continuity management; monitoring, audit and control; and compliance with international standards.

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

Cover at least: risk analysis and information-security policy; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems, including vulnerability management and disclosure; evaluation of your measures' effectiveness; basic cyber-hygiene training; cryptography; personnel security and access control; and multi-factor or continuous authentication.

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

Cover at minimum: risk analysis and information-system security policy; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security, including your direct suppliers and service providers; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies to assess the effectiveness of your risk-management measures; basic cyber-hygiene practices and staff training; cryptography and, where relevant, encryption policy; personnel security, access control and asset management; and, where appropriate, multi-factor or continuous authentication and secure voice, video, text and emergency communications.

Haiti BRH Circulaire 126, Information Security Rules for Financial Institutions

Develop, test and maintain a risk-based contingency plan, including an offsite recovery center kept separate from your main site, and a regularly checked backup system.

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

Keep effective business-continuity arrangements for any failure of your trading systems, including the ICT business continuity policy and plans and the ICT response and recovery plans set up under DORA Article 11, and fully test and monitor your systems so that they always meet Section 26/B and DORA Chapters II and IV (Section 26/B(2)).

Iceland Minimum Risk-Management and Preparedness Requirements for Critical Infrastructure

Maintain a documented security policy and risk-management process, assess and re-assess risk on a regular basis, and put in place technical and organisational security measures, including access control, tested regularly against current international best practice.

Maintain a documented incident-response plan and a business-continuity plan covering incident logging, root-cause analysis, restoration of normal operation, and prevention of recurrence, and operate an active internal-control system consistent with this Act and any sector-specific law.

Ireland European Union (Digital Operational Resilience) Regulations 2025, ICT Systems and Continuity Duties of Financial Firms

As a credit institution or investment firm, have contingency and business continuity policies and plans, including ICT business continuity policies and plans and ICT response and recovery plans, established, managed and tested in accordance with Article 11 of the DORA Regulation (regulation 4).

Ireland European Union (NIS) Regulations 2018, Security Requirements

As a relevant digital service provider, additionally take into account the security of your systems and facilities, incident handling, business continuity management, monitoring, auditing and testing, and compliance with international standards, and keep documentation sufficient for the competent authority to verify your compliance.

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

Cover at least: risk-analysis and information-system security policies; incident handling, including the procedures and tools to carry out the Article 25 and 26 notifications; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; and supply-chain security.

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.

Latvia Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 397, Minimum Cybersecurity Requirements

Keep a cybersecurity governance document set made up of a cybersecurity policy, a catalogue of your ICT resources and information systems, a cyber-risk-management and ICT-business-continuity plan and a cyber incident log (point 21), and review the policy at least once in three years (point 28).

Review and update the cyber-risk-management and ICT-business-continuity plan at least once a year if you are an ICT critical infrastructure owner or an essential service provider holding a class A system, at least once in two years if you are another essential service provider, and at least once in three years if you are an important service provider (point 40).

Latvia Nacionālās kiberdrošības likums, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Draft a cyber-risk-management and ICT-business-continuity plan and give your staff regular training on carrying it out; the Cabinet sets the plan's required content (Article 28(2)), and Cabinet Regulation No. 397 of , 'Minimālās kiberdrošības prasības', sets the minimum cybersecurity requirements your systems must meet.

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

Prepare policies and take preventive measures and procedures against crimes committed by electronic means, including a cybercrime risk analysis, a budget for an information-technology security policy, insurance covering electronic-crime risk, a continuously updated incident-response and business-continuity plan, a dedicated prevention team, and employee and customer awareness training.

Adopt at least two-factor authentication for any user accessing the system from outside the bank or financial institution, fully encrypt highly sensitive data, filter inbound email, verify the security of devices employees use outside the institution, run penetration testing, monitor network traffic, and verify data integrity.

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

Cover at least: risk analysis and information-system-security policy; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management and disaster recovery, and crisis management; supply-chain security; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems, including vulnerability management and disclosure; evaluating your measures' effectiveness; basic cyber-hygiene procedures and training; cryptography and, where appropriate, encryption; personnel security, access-control concepts and asset management; and multi-factor or continuous authentication, plus secured voice, video and text communication.

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

Adopt and keep current cybersecurity policy documents, periodically analyse and manage your cybersecurity risks, designate the persons responsible for cybersecurity, manage cybersecurity incidents and report on them, secure your supply chain, and deploy technical cybersecurity measures.

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

If you are a CRR institution in Luxembourg, keep adequate contingency and business continuity policies and plans, including ICT business continuity policies and plans and ICT response and recovery plans, and establish, manage and test them in accordance with Article 11 of the DORA Regulation (Loi du 1er juillet 2024, Article 5).

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

Cover at least: risk analysis and information-system-security policy; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management and crisis management; supply-chain security, including the security of your relationships with direct suppliers and service providers; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; evaluating the effectiveness of your own risk-management measures; basic cyber-hygiene practices and cybersecurity training; policies on cryptography and, where appropriate, encryption; personnel security, access-control policy and asset management; and multi-factor or continuous authentication, secure voice, video and text communications, and secure emergency communication systems as needed.

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

Base those measures on an all-hazards approach and cover at least: policies on risk analysis and information system security; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply chain security; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of network and information systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies and procedures to assess the effectiveness of the measures; basic cyber hygiene practices and cybersecurity training; policies on cryptography and, where appropriate, encryption; human resources security, insider risk management, access control and asset management; multi-factor or continuous authentication, secured voice, video and text communications and secured emergency communication systems where appropriate; and logging and traceability (article 19(2)).

Marshall Islands Cybersecurity Act 2025, Cybersecurity of Critical Information Infrastructure

At minimum: conduct rolling cybersecurity risk assessments at a frequency the Chief Information Security Officer prescribes; develop and implement internal cybersecurity policies and procedures, an internal incident-reporting policy, and an internal cybersecurity awareness program; and transmit the resulting mitigation actions to the Director within thirty days of completing each risk assessment.

Montenegro Law on Information Security, Essential and Important Entities

If designated, adopt a cyber-security risk and security analysis, an incident-handling policy, a business-continuity and cyber-crisis plan, a supply-chain security act and system-governance acts, apply cryptographic protection where your work requires it, and assess the effectiveness of these measures (Article 16).

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.

Netherlands Cyberbeveiligingsbesluit, Security Measures and Incident Notification Details

Record in writing, and apply demonstrably, policies on the security of your network and information systems, on risk management (with a risk-management method and risk-acceptance criteria), on incident handling, and on business continuity and crisis management (Articles 6 to 9).

Netherlands Cyberbeveiligingswet, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures and Governance

Cover at minimum: risk analysis and information-system security policy; incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security, including the direct suppliers and service providers you rely on; security in acquiring, developing and maintaining your systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies to assess the effectiveness of your risk-management measures; basic cyber-hygiene practices and staff training; cryptography and, where applicable, encryption policy; personnel security, access control and asset management; and, where appropriate, multi-factor or continuous authentication, and secure voice, video, text and emergency communications.

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

The Department says your incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery plans should be reasonably designed to address all types of cybersecurity events and other disruptions, including those relating to AI.

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

Maintain a cybersecurity program, based on your risk assessment, designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your information systems and the nonpublic information stored on them, and designed to identify and assess risks, protect against unauthorized access, detect cybersecurity events, respond to and recover from them, and fulfill applicable regulatory reporting obligations.

Base the policy and procedures on your risk assessment and address, at a minimum and to the extent applicable to your operations: information security; data governance, classification and retention; asset inventory, device management and end of life management; access controls, including remote access and identity management; business continuity and disaster recovery planning and resources; systems operations and availability concerns; systems and network security and monitoring; security awareness and training; systems and application security and development and quality assurance; physical security and environmental controls; customer data privacy; vendor and third-party service provider management; risk assessment; incident response and notification; and vulnerability management.

New York New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation, Incident Response and Business Continuity Management

Establish written plans, as part of your cybersecurity program, that contain proactive measures to investigate and mitigate cybersecurity events and to ensure operational resilience, including incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Design the incident response plan to enable prompt response to, and recovery from, any cybersecurity event materially affecting the confidentiality, integrity or availability of your information systems or the continuing functionality of any aspect of your business or operations, and address in it, for different types of events including ransomware: its goals; internal response processes; roles, responsibilities and levels of decision-making authority; external and internal communications and information sharing; remediation of identified weaknesses; documentation and reporting; recovery from backups; root cause analysis; and updating of the plan.

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

Implement an information security management system in the information system used in the processes affecting your provision of the service, covering systematic risk assessment and risk management, physical, personnel and supply-chain security, business continuity and disaster-recovery planning, continuous monitoring, effectiveness evaluation, cybersecurity training and basic cyber-hygiene, cryptography, secure communications and multi-factor authentication where appropriate, asset management, and access control.

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

Cover at minimum: incident handling; business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management; supply-chain security, including your relationship with your direct suppliers and service providers; security in the acquisition, development and maintenance of your systems, including vulnerability handling and disclosure; policies to assess the effectiveness of your risk-management measures; basic cyber-hygiene practices and cybersecurity training, including for your top management; cryptography and, where applicable, encryption policy; personnel security, access control and asset management; and multi-factor or continuous authentication, secure communications and secure emergency communication systems.

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

Cover at least: risk-analysis and system-security policy and its periodic review; evaluating the effectiveness of your risk-management measures; cryptography and encryption policy; supply-chain security, including the security of your relationship with your direct suppliers and service providers; security of system acquisition, development, maintenance and decommissioning, including vulnerability management and disclosure; human-resources security, access control and asset management; incident management; business continuity, including backups, disaster recovery and crisis management; basic cyber-hygiene practices and training; and multi-factor or continuous authentication.

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

Take technical, operational, organisational and physical protection measures across the areas Article 10 lists, including multi-factor authentication or a continuous-authentication solution, secured voice, video and text communication, and secured communication channels for emergencies.

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

If you are an operator under the Zakon o elektronskih komunikacijah (ZEKom-2), establish and maintain a documented information security management system (SUVI) and continuity management system (SUNP) in line with the information security law, and take appropriate, effective and proportionate technical, operational and organizational measures to protect the integrity, authenticity, confidentiality and availability of your network and information systems and to limit the effect of incidents on your customers (Article 115(1)).

Treat the SUVI and SUNP as a business secret, review the emergency-communication part of the SUNP at least once a year, and obtain the prior approval of the competent bodies before adopting or changing it (Article 115(2) and (3)).

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

Adopt adequate and proportionate technical and organisational measures to manage the risks to the networks and information systems you use to provide the service, and take measures to prevent and minimise the impact of incidents that affect you; as a digital service provider, determine the security measures you apply, taking into account at least the state of the art and the security of your systems and facilities, incident management, business-continuity management, monitoring, auditing and testing, and compliance with relevant international standards.

Spain Real Decreto-ley 7/2022 on the Security of 5G Networks and Services, Duties of 5G Operators, Suppliers and Corporate Users

As a 5G operator, guarantee the secure installation, deployment and operation of public 5G networks and the secure provision of 5G services, including technical and operational measures for the physical and logical integrity of the networks, contingency plans for essential services that depend on them, control of who can access network assets, use of only certified products, resources, services and systems to operate them, compliance with applicable technical standards and European certification schemes, supplier security requirements, control of your own supply chain, and a security audit at your cost (Article 12(1) and (2)).

Sweden Cybersäkerhetslag, Cybersecurity Risk-Management Measures

Take appropriate and proportionate technical, operational and organisational measures, on an all-hazards basis, to protect the network and information systems you use for your operations or to provide your services, and their physical environment, against an incident, at minimum covering risk-analysis strategy, incident handling, business continuity and crisis management, supply-chain security, security in system acquisition/development/maintenance, effectiveness-assessment procedures, basic cyber hygiene and staff training, cryptography and encryption policies, personnel security, access control and asset management, and, where relevant, authentication, secure communications and secure emergency-communication systems.

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

Have the dedicated unit plan, manage and execute the information security system to control information security risk, supervise every unit's compliance with it, and build the mechanisms for cyber security protection, threat-intelligence assessment, and cyber security incident notification and response.

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

Draw up an info-communications security maintenance plan covering the management scope and classification of covered systems, compliance-verification measures, plan-implementation measures, and joint-defense and incident-response measures, and implement it.

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

Develop, maintain and implement policies, practices and procedures to detect, share information about, mitigate and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents, communicate them to your staff, and keep records evidencing your compliance available to the Minister CPR on request.

Breach notification

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Alaska Alaska Personal Information Protection Act, breach notification duty

Document and retain for five years any determination, made after investigation and written notice to the Alaska Attorney General, that a breach is unlikely to cause resident harm and so does not require disclosure.

Albania Law No. 124/2024, notification of a personal data breach

Document every personal data breach, its facts, its effects, and the corrective measures taken, so the Commissioner can verify compliance.

Algeria Loi n° 18-07 relative à la protection des personnes physiques, notification des violations de données

Keep an up-to-date inventory of personal-data breaches and the measures you took to remedy them.

Andorra LQPD, personal data breach notification

Document every personal data breach, its facts, effects and remedial measures, so the Agency can verify your compliance.

Barbados Data Protection Act, 2019, personal data breach notification

Document every personal data breach, its facts, its effects and the remedial action taken, so the Commissioner can assess compliance.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Law on the Protection of Personal Data of Bosnia and Herzegovina, personal data breach notification

Describe in the notification the nature of the breach, the data protection officer's or another contact point's details, the likely consequences and the measures taken or proposed, supplying the information in phases if it cannot all be given at once, and document every breach, its facts, effects and remedial action for the Agency to review.

Bulgaria Electronic Communications Act Articles 261в to 261д, Personal Data Breach Notification by Providers of Public Electronic Communications Services

Keep a register of personal data breaches that records the facts, their consequences and the action taken (Article 261д).

Cabo Verde Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data, personal data breach notification

Document every personal data breach, with its facts, its effects and the remedial measures taken, so that the CNPD can verify your compliance (Article 27(5)).

Djibouti Digital Code, Book I: personal-data breach notification

Keep a register of every personal-data breach, its facts, its effects and the remedial measures taken, and make it available to the Commission on request.

Egypt Egypt Personal Data Protection Law, Personal Data Infringement notification

Be ready to give the Center a description of the infringement's nature, form and reasons and the approximate number of Personal Data and records affected, the Data Protection Officer's information, the potential consequences, the procedures followed and proposed to minimise the impact, and evidence documenting the infringement and the corrective actions taken.

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El Salvador Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales, personal data breach notification

Within that same seventy two hours, begin a thorough review of the breach's magnitude, adopt corrective and preventive measures, and update your security policies to prevent a recurrence.

Document every breach that risks the security of personal data, noting its date, cause, related facts, effects and corrective measures, and keep that record available to the Agencia de Ciberseguridad del Estado.

Ethiopia Personal Data Protection Proclamation, personal data breach notification

Document every personal data breach, its facts, its effects and the remedial action taken, so the Authority can assess compliance.

European Union Commission Regulation on Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers (Regulation (EU) No 611/2013)

Assess whether the breach is likely to adversely affect a subscriber or individual by taking account of, in particular, the nature and content of the personal data (financial information, special categories of data referred to in Article 8(1) of Directive 95/46/EC, location data, internet log files, web browsing histories, e-mail data and itemized call lists), the likely consequences for the person (identity theft or fraud, physical harm, psychological distress, humiliation or damage to reputation), and the circumstances of the breach, in particular where the data has been stolen or you know it is in the possession of an unauthorized third party (Article 3(2)).

European Union ePrivacy Directive, Article 4(3) to (5), Personal Data Breach Notification

Maintain an inventory of personal data breaches comprising the facts surrounding each breach, its effects and the remedial action taken, sufficient to enable the competent national authorities to verify compliance with the notification duty, and include in it only the information necessary for that purpose (Article 4(4)).

Gabon Law No. 025/2023, personal-data breach notification

Keep an up-to-date register of every personal-data breach, its circumstances, its impact and the remedial measures taken, and make it available to the APDPVP.

Ghana Data Protection Act, notification of security compromises

Take steps to restore the integrity of the information system after unauthorised access or acquisition of personal data, and delay notifying the data subject only where the Commission or a security agency says notification would impede a criminal investigation.

Hungary Act C of 2003 on Electronic Communications, Section 156, Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers

Keep a register of those breaches that records their essential circumstances and effects and the corrective measures you took, and make it cover every fact the Authority needs to check that you notified the person concerned as the Act requires (Eht. section 156, paragraph 4).

Kansas Kansas Breach Notification Act, notice of security breach

Conduct a good-faith, reasonable, and prompt investigation on becoming aware of a breach of system security involving personal information about a Kansas resident.

Kiribati Data Protection Act 2025, personal data breaches

Keep a record of every personal data breach, regardless of whether it meets that threshold, including the facts, its effects and the remedial action taken, and make your threshold analysis available to the Office on request.

Kosovo Law No. 06/L-082 on Protection of Personal Data, personal data breach notification

Document every personal data breach, its facts, effects and remedial action, so the Agency can verify your compliance.

Lithuania Law on Electronic Communications Article 74, Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers

Record every personal data breach, with its causes, its effects and the measures taken (Article 74, paragraph 8).

Monaco Loi sur la Protection des Données Personnelles, notification des violations de données

Document every personal data breach, its facts, its effects, and the remedial steps you took, and expect the Authority to be able to require you to communicate the breach to the affected person if you have not already done so.

Nebraska Nebraska Financial Data Protection and Consumer Notification of Data Security Breach Act

Conduct a reasonable and prompt investigation upon becoming aware of a breach of security involving a Nebraska resident's personal information.

Netherlands Telecommunicatiewet Article 11.3a, Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers

Keep an overview of all personal data breaches, with at least the facts and the details that the notification contains (Article 11.3a, paragraph 6).

Québec Confidentiality incident notification and register

If you have cause to believe a confidentiality incident involving personal information you hold has occurred, take reasonable measures to reduce the risk of injury and prevent further incidents of the same nature.

Keep a register of every confidentiality incident, and send a copy to the Commission d’accès à l’information on request.

Romania Law 506/2004 Article 3, Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers

Keep a record of all personal data breaches that describes what happened, its effects and the remedial measures taken (Article 3, paragraph 12).

Samoa National Digital Identification Act 2024, personal data breach notification

Keep a record of every personal data breach, its effects, and the remedial action taken, sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the Act's breach notification duties.

San Marino San Marino Law No. 171, personal data breach notification

Describe in the notification the nature of the breach, including where possible the categories and approximate number of data subjects and of records concerned, the contact point, the likely consequences and the measures taken, and document every breach, its effects and the remedial action.

Serbia Law on Personal Data Protection, personal data breach notification

Document every breach, including its facts, effects and remedial action, so the Commissioner can assess compliance.

Singapore Personal Data Protection Act, data breach notification

An app that experiences a data breach affecting an individual's personal data in Singapore must assess whether the breach is likely to cause significant harm or is of significant scale, and if so must notify the PDPC as soon as practicable and in any case within 3 calendar days of that assessment, and must also notify each affected individual unless a statutory exception applies.

Slovenia Electronic Communications Act (ZEKom-2) Article 227, Personal Data Breach Notification by Providers of Public Communications Services

Keep a sufficient inventory of personal data breaches (Article 227, paragraph 7).

Somalia Data Protection Act, 2023, personal data breach notification

Keep a record of every personal data breach.

Suriname Draft Law on the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data, breach notification proposed

Document every breach relating to personal data, including the facts, its effects, and the corrective measures taken, in a form that lets the Commissioner verify your compliance with this duty.

Utah Protection of Personal Information Act

If unencrypted Utah-resident data combining a name with a Social Security number, a driver license or state ID number, or a financial account or card number with its access code is breached, investigate promptly in good faith and notify each affected Utah resident without unreasonable delay.

Zimbabwe Cyber and Data Protection Regulations 2024, security breach notification

Keep robust breach detection, investigation and internal reporting procedures in place, and keep a record of all personal data breaches.

Security baseline statutes

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Belarus Law No. 455-Z, Information System Operator's Duty to Protect Information (Article 40)

Where necessary, take measures to restore information that has been lost.

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

An app operating a database of the personal data of a person in Israel, above the small-collection thresholds already recorded on this jurisdiction's privacy-topic row, must prescribe a written data security procedure covering physical protection, access authorizations, identification and authentication, encryption, and incident handling, scaled to the security-level tier (basic, medium, or high) that the volume and sensitivity of the data it holds places it in.

Kyrgyzstan Digital Code, digital resilience baseline security measures

Maintain the integrity and availability of your digital systems and the confidentiality of the digital data you process, monitor for and help prevent incidents in the digital environment, manage the resulting risk under a risk-management system, and dedicate the resources your continuity of operation and recovery from an incident require.

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.

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

Adopt a written information-security policy, a cyber-risk-management methodology, incident-notification procedures, mechanisms to prevent, correct, or mitigate cyber risk, a backup and recovery infrastructure, internal security-audit and oversight mechanisms, and a staff security-awareness and training programme.

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

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New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act, data security program duty

Absent that safe harbor, develop, implement, and maintain a data security program with reasonable administrative safeguards (a designated coordinator, a risk assessment, employee training, vetted service-provider contracts, and periodic adjustment), reasonable technical safeguards (assessing network and software design risk, detecting and responding to attacks, and testing controls), and reasonable physical safeguards (securing storage and disposal and limiting access during and after collection).

Turkmenistan Law on Information and Its Protection, information-security duty

Where the duty is triggered, maintain administrative, technical and organizational measures that: prevent unauthorized access to information and its transfer to a person without a right of access; detect an unauthorized access event in a timely manner; prevent adverse consequences from a breach of the access procedure; prevent disruption of the technical means used to process the information; permit immediate restoration of information altered or destroyed by unauthorized access; and continuously monitor the level of the information's protection.

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.

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.

Vulnerability and incident reporting

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China Data Security Law, Risk Monitoring and Incident Reporting Duty

On an actual data-security incident, immediately take disposal measures, promptly notify affected users as provided, and report the incident to the competent authority; the statute states no numeric deadline, only immediacy and promptness.

Gambia Information and Communications Act, 2009, security of information and communications services (subscriber risk notification)

Notifying subscribers of a security risk does not excuse you from taking immediate measures to restore your service's normal security level.

Indonesia Government Regulation on the Operation of Electronic Systems and Transactions, security-incident reporting duty

On a system failure or disruption with a serious impact resulting from another party's act against your Electronic System, such as an attack or intrusion, secure the affected Electronic Information and/or Electronic Document.

Kiribati Cybersecurity Act 2026, Duty to Report a Cybersecurity Incident from a date not yet set

When you are the subject of a cybersecurity incident or threat of one, gather information about it, assess the risk to your critical infrastructure, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, take appropriate preventative, mitigating and remedial measures to limit that risk, and report all material information about a significant cybersecurity incident to the National CERT and any relevant Sectoral CERT within 24 hours after you detect it, in the form or manner the CERT prescribes.

Latvia Nacionālās kiberdrošības likums, Incident Notification

Immediately take all action necessary to contain a detected cyber incident, immediately inform the competent cyber incident prevention institution (for most private-sector and civilian public-sector subjects, the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia), and follow its instructions.

Taiwan Cyber Security Management Act, Cyber Security Incident Reporting

Establish a notification and response mechanism for a cyber security incident before one occurs.

Tunisia Cybersecurity Incident Reporting and Emergency Response

Create your own cybersecurity emergency response center, or join a public, sectoral or private one, and have it coordinate with the national emergency-response contact point.

Vietnam Cybersecurity Law, Incident Response and Reporting Duties

As an enterprise providing a service on a telecommunications network, the Internet, or another value-added service in cyberspace in Vietnam, warn users of the cybersecurity risks in the service and give guidance on preventive measures, and keep an emergency response plan ready to address cybersecurity weaknesses, risks and incidents.

When a cybersecurity incident occurs, implement that plan immediately and simultaneously report it to the specialized cybersecurity protection force; the Law states no fixed number of hours for this report.

Comprehensive regime

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Albania Law No. 124/2024 On the Protection of Personal Data

Implement technical and organizational security measures appropriate to the risk, including pseudonymization and encryption, the ability to restore access after an incident, and a process for regularly testing their effectiveness.

Barbados Data Protection Act, 2019

Implement technical and organisational measures giving a level of security appropriate to the risk, including pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data, the ability to restore availability and access in a timely manner after a physical or technical incident, and a process for regularly testing their effectiveness.

Biometric privacy

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Colorado HB 24-1130, Privacy of Biometric Identifiers and Data

Adopt and publish a written policy that sets a retention schedule and a destruction timeline (the earliest of purpose satisfied, 24 months after the consumer's last interaction, or 45 days, extendable by up to 45 more, after the identifier is no longer needed) and a data-security-incident response protocol.

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