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Reporting Obligation

What is Reporting Obligation?

A legal or regulatory requirement to disclose specific information to authorities, stakeholders, or the public within defined timeframes.

Compliance and Regulatory

What the standards actually require on reporting obligation

Requirements naming reporting obligation across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Providers of intermediary services (except micro/small enterprises that are not VLOPs) shall publish, at least annually, clear and comprehensible reports on any content moderation they engaged in during the period.

DSA-Art.15 · Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services

CISA conducts an outreach and education campaign on the reporting requirements, protections and mechanisms; covered entities should maintain awareness of the final rule and designate how reports are submitted.

CIRCIA-2242e · Awareness of Reporting Obligations

A reporting business entity that makes, or whose entity makes on its behalf, a ransomware or cyber-extortion payment in response to a cyber security incident must report the payment to the designated Commonwealth body within 72 hours of making the payment or b...

AUCSA-RAN-RPT · Ransomware and cyber-extortion payment reporting obligation

Article 14 imposes a layered reporting regime channelled through the Article 16 single reporting platform operated by ENISA and CSIRTs: (1) 24-hour early warning to ENISA and to the CSIRT designated as the coordinator notifying of an actively exploited vulnera...

CRA-Art.14_16 · Reporting obligations and the single reporting platform (Articles 14 and 16)
IEC 624431 control

Reporting obligations to authorities. Control from IEC 62443 framework, domain: IEC 62443: Incident Response & Recovery.

IEC62443-18 · Reporting obligations to authorities
ISO 270191 control

Reporting obligations to authorities. Control from ISO 27019 framework, domain: ISO 27019: Incident Response & Recovery.

ISO27019-18 · Reporting obligations to authorities

Questions people ask about reporting obligation

What is Reporting Obligation?
A legal or regulatory requirement to disclose specific information to authorities, stakeholders, or the public within defined timeframes.
Why is Reporting Obligation important for compliance?
Reporting Obligation is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding reporting obligation helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Reporting Obligation?
Reporting Obligation appears in the requirement text of Digital Services Act (DSA) - Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, CIRCIA (Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act), Cyber Security Act 2024 (Australia), EU Cyber Resilience Act, IEC 62443. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Reporting Obligation?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how reporting obligation applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.