Information sharing between authorities and financial entities


The direct reporting should enable financial supervisors to have immediate access to information about major ICT-related incidentsmeans an ICT-related incident that has a high adverse impact on the network and information systems that support critical or important functions of the financial entity;. Financial supervisors should in turn pass on details of major ICT-related incidentsmeans an ICT-related incident that has a high adverse impact on the network and information systems that support critical or important functions of the financial entity; to public non-financial authorities (such as competent authoritiesas defined in Article 46 and single points of contact under Directive (EU) 2022/2555, national data protection authorities, and to law enforcement authorities for major ICT-related incidentsmeans an ICT-related incident that has a high adverse impact on the network and information systems that support critical or important functions of the financial entity; of a criminal nature) in order to enhance such authorities awareness of such incidents and, in the case of CSIRTscomputer security incident response teams, to facilitate prompt assistance that may be given to financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t), as appropriate. Member States should, in addition, be able to determine that financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) themselves should provide such information to public authoritiesmeans any government or other public administration entity, including national central banks. outside the financial services area. Those information flows should allow financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) to swiftly benefit from any relevant technical input, advice about remedies, and subsequent follow-up from such authorities. The information on major ICT-related incidentsmeans an ICT-related incident that has a high adverse impact on the network and information systems that support critical or important functions of the financial entity; should be mutually channelled: financial supervisors should provide all necessary feedback or guidance to the financial entity, while the ESAsEuropean Supervisory Authority should share anonymised data on cyber threatsmeans ‘cyber threat’ as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; and vulnerabilitiesmeans a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of an asset, system, process or control that can be exploited; relating to an incident, to aid wider collective defence.