Article 10 Testing phase: threat intelligence

Following the approval of the scope specification document by the TLPT authoritymeans any of the following:the single public authority in the financial sector designated in accordance with Article 26(9) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;the authority in the financial sector to which the exercise of some or all of the tasks in relation to TLPT is delegated in accordance with Article 26(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;any of the competent authorities referred to in Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;, the threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider shall analyse generic and sector-specific threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; relevant for the financial entity. Where a generic threat landscape has been provided by the TLPT authoritymeans any of the following:the single public authority in the financial sector designated in accordance with Article 26(9) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;the authority in the financial sector to which the exercise of some or all of the tasks in relation to TLPT is delegated in accordance with Article 26(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;any of the competent authorities referred to in Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554; for the financial sector of a Member State, the threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider may use that landscape as a baseline for the national threat landscape. The threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider shall identify cyber threatsmeans ‘cyber threat’ as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; and existing or potential vulnerabilitiesmeans a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of an asset, system, process or control that can be exploited; concerning the financial entity. Furthermore, the threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider shall gather information on, and analyse concrete, actionable, and contextualised target and threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; concerning the financial entity, including through consulting the control teammeans the team composed of staff of the tested financial entity and, where relevant in consideration of the scope of the TLPT, staff of its third-party service providers and any other party, who manages the test; and the test managersmeans staff designated to lead the activities of the TLPT authority for a specific TLPT to monitor compliance with this Regulation;.

The threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider shall present the relevant threats and targeted threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations;, and propose requisite scenarios to the control teammeans the team composed of staff of the tested financial entity and, where relevant in consideration of the scope of the TLPT, staff of its third-party service providers and any other party, who manages the test;, testers and test managersmeans staff designated to lead the activities of the TLPT authority for a specific TLPT to monitor compliance with this Regulation;. The proposed scenarios shall differ with reference to the identified threat actors and associated tactics, techniques and procedures and shall target each critical or important functionmeans a function, the disruption of which would materially impair the financial performance of a financial entity, or the soundness or continuity of its services and activities, or the discontinued, defective or failed performance of that function would materially impair the continuing compliance of a financial entity with the conditions and obligations of its authorisation, or with its other obligations under applicable financial services law; in the scope of the TLPT.

1. the recommendation by the threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider and the threat-led nature of each scenario;

2. the input provided by the test managersmeans staff designated to lead the activities of the TLPT authority for a specific TLPT to monitor compliance with this Regulation;;

3. the feasibility of the proposed scenarios for execution, based on the expert judgement of the testers;

4. the size, complexity and overall risk profile of the financial entity and the nature, scale, and complexity of its services, activities, and operations.

No more than one of the selected scenarios may be non-threat-led and may be based on a forward-looking and potentially fictive threat with high predictive, anticipative, opportunistic, or prospective value given the anticipated developments of the threat landscape concerning the financial entity.

For pooled TLPTs, without prejudice to the scenarios targeting directly the critical or important functionsmeans a function, the disruption of which would materially impair the financial performance of a financial entity, or the soundness or continuity of its services and activities, or the discontinued, defective or failed performance of that function would materially impair the continuing compliance of a financial entity with the conditions and obligations of its authorisation, or with its other obligations under applicable financial services law; of the financial entities involved in the testing, at least one scenario shall include the ICT third-party services providermeans an undertaking providing ICT services;’s relevant underlying ICT systems, processes, and technologies supporting the critical or important functionsmeans a function, the disruption of which would materially impair the financial performance of a financial entity, or the soundness or continuity of its services and activities, or the discontinued, defective or failed performance of that function would materially impair the continuing compliance of a financial entity with the conditions and obligations of its authorisation, or with its other obligations under applicable financial services law; of the financial entities in scope.

Where the test is a joint TLPTmeans a TLPT, other than a pooled TLPT as referred to in Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, involving several financial entities using the same ICT intra-group service provider, or belonging to the same group and sharing ICT systems. involving an ICT intra-group service providermeans an undertaking that is part of a financial group and that provides predominantly ICT services to financial entities within the same group or to financial entities belonging to the same institutional protection scheme, including to their parent undertakings, subsidiaries, branches or other entities that are under common ownership or control;, without prejudice to the scenarios targeting directly the critical or important functionsmeans a function, the disruption of which would materially impair the financial performance of a financial entity, or the soundness or continuity of its services and activities, or the discontinued, defective or failed performance of that function would materially impair the continuing compliance of a financial entity with the conditions and obligations of its authorisation, or with its other obligations under applicable financial services law; of the financial entities involved in the test, at least one scenario shall include the ICT intragroup services provider’s relevant underlying ICT systems, processes and technologies supporting the critical or important functionsmeans a function, the disruption of which would materially impair the financial performance of a financial entity, or the soundness or continuity of its services and activities, or the discontinued, defective or failed performance of that function would materially impair the continuing compliance of a financial entity with the conditions and obligations of its authorisation, or with its other obligations under applicable financial services law; of the financial entities in scope.

The threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; provider shall provide the targeted threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; report to the control teammeans the team composed of staff of the tested financial entity and, where relevant in consideration of the scope of the TLPT, staff of its third-party service providers and any other party, who manages the test;, including the scenarios selected in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4. The threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; report shall contain the information set out in Annex III.

The control teammeans the team composed of staff of the tested financial entity and, where relevant in consideration of the scope of the TLPT, staff of its third-party service providers and any other party, who manages the test; shall submit the targeted threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; report to the test manager for approval. Where the targeted threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; report is complete and ensures the performance of an effective TLPT, the TLPT authoritymeans any of the following:the single public authority in the financial sector designated in accordance with Article 26(9) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;the authority in the financial sector to which the exercise of some or all of the tasks in relation to TLPT is delegated in accordance with Article 26(10) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;any of the competent authorities referred to in Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554; shall approve the targeted threat intelligencemeans information that has been aggregated, transformed, analysed, interpreted or enriched to provide the necessary context for decision-making and to enable relevant and sufficient understanding in order to mitigate the impact of an ICT-related incident or of a cyber threat, including the technical details of a cyber-attack, those responsible for the attack and their modus operandi and motivations; report and inform the control team leadmeans the staff member of the financial entity responsible for the conduct of all TLPT-related activities for the financial entity in the context of a given test; thereof.