Information sharing between authorities and financial entities
The direct reporting should enable financial supervisors to have immediate access to information about major ICT-related incidentsan 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 incidentsan 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 incidentsan 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 authoritiesany 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 incidentsan 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 threatsas defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881: any potential circumstance, event or action that could damage, disrupt or otherwise adversely impact network and information systems, the users of such systems and other persons and vulnerabilitiesa weakness, susceptibility or flaw of an asset, system, process or control that can be exploited relating to an incident, to aid wider collective defence.