Article 34 ICT operations security

1. monitor and manage the lifecycle of all ICT assets means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity;;

2. monitor whether the ICT assets means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity; are supported by ICT third-party service providers means an undertaking providing ICT services; of financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t), where applicable;

3. identify capacity requirements of their ICT assets means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity; and measures to maintain and improve the availability and efficiency of ICT systems and prevent ICT capacity shortages before they materialise;

4. perform automated vulnerability means a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of a product with digital elements that can be exploited by a cyber threat; scanning and assessments of ICT assets means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity; commensurate to their classification as referred to in Article 30(1) and to the overall risk means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; profile of the ICT asset means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity;, and deploy patches to address identified vulnerabilities means a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of a product with digital elements that can be exploited by a cyber threat;;

5. manage the risks means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; related to outdated, unsupported, or legacy ICT assets means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity;;

6. log events related to logical and physical access control, ICT operations, including system and network traffic activities, and ICT change management;

7. identify and implement measures to monitor and analyse information on anomalous activities and behaviour for critical or important ICT operations;

8. implement measures to monitor relevant and up-to-date information about cyber threats means a cyber threat as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881;;

9. implement measures to identify possible information leakages, malicious code and other security threats, and publicly known vulnerabilities means a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of a product with digital elements that can be exploited by a cyber threat; in software means the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; and hardware means a physical electronic information system, or parts thereof capable of processing, storing or transmitting digital data;, and check for corresponding new security updates.

For the purposes of point (f), financial entitiesas defined in Article 2, points (a) to (t) shall align the level of detail of the logs with their purpose and usage of the ICT asset means a software or hardware asset in the network and information systems used by the financial entity; producing those logs.