No enacted statute or regulation was located that sets security requirements a software product or connected device must meet to be placed on the market in the Maldives, creates a duty to report a vulnerability or a security incident to an authority, establishes a sector cyber-resilience regime reaching a software or platform provider, or imposes a general reasonable-security or information-security-programme duty on a business holding covered data with no sector gate.
A title, the Information and Communication Technology Act 2017, has been named in prior research on this jurisdiction without a citation, but no Act number, gazette citation, or working government-hosted text is located for it here.
It does not appear among the 37 legislative texts the World Intellectual Property Organization's WIPO Lex database catalogues for the Maldives, a list that extends past core intellectual-property statutes to the Constitution, the Companies Act, and consumer-protection and cable-television instruments.
It is absent from the Communications Authority of Maldives's own published laws, the Communications Authority of Maldives Act (Law No. 2015/42) and a separate Telecommunications Act, both Dhivehi-language telecommunications-licensing statutes for which no English translation is located and whose substantive content is accordingly not described here.
It does not appear on the National Centre for Information Technology's own site, current or in Internet Archive captures of that site from 2004 through 2017, whose "IT Security" section offered only security guidelines and security alerts, an advisory function with no statute cited; the domain no longer resolves on its own and, per a 2024 capture, now redirects to the Maldives government's unified web portal, for which no working page was located here.
The People's Majlis's own legislative site, the remaining channel that could hold the text, presents a CAPTCHA challenge and is not read here. A separate pass over this jurisdiction's scraping-topic law independently reports the same gap for the same title. Its existence is accordingly an open question, not a confirmed absence, the posture this jurisdiction's privacy row already takes toward a separately named "Data Protection Act 2017" title.
No national computer emergency response team established by binding legislation is confirmed either: a domain sometimes associated with a Maldives national CERT, cert.mv, does not resolve, and the National Centre for Information Technology, the agency that ran the advisory security-guidance function described above, now sits under the Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology per this jurisdiction's AI row, with no cybersecurity-specific statute located for it here.
Whether the Maldives Monetary Authority has issued a binding information-technology-risk or cybersecurity directive for licensed financial institutions, the kind of bound party this profile otherwise treats as deferred and role-inexpressible, is not confirmed here: the Authority's regulatory-framework and circulars listings are served by a script-rendered application whose content is not captured in the pages retrieved.
This jurisdiction's privacy row already covers the separate question of a comprehensive personal-data statute and a pending Personal Data Protection Bill submitted to the People's Majlis in 2026; it is not restated here. The Penal Code's computer-access provisions, amended around December 2024, bind an intruder rather than an operator or manufacturer and are recorded on this jurisdiction's scraping row instead.
