+Article 26 2.

Article 26 2.

Les plans de réponse et de rétablissement des TIC visés au paragraphe 1 recensent les scénarios pertinents, y compris les scénarios de graves perturbations des activités et de probabilité accrue de survenance d’une perturbation. Ces plans établissent des scénarios fondés sur les informations actuelles sur les menaces et sur les enseignements tirés des perturbations des activités survenues antérieurement. Les entités financières tiennent dûment compte de tous les scénarios suivants:

a) 

des cyberattaques et des basculements entre l’infrastructure de TIC principale et la capacité redondante, les sauvegardes et les installations redondantes;

b) 

les scénarios dans lesquels la qualité de l’exécution d’une fonction critique ou importante se détériore à un niveau inacceptable, en prenant alors dûment en considération les incidences potentielles de l’insolvabilité ou d’autres défaillances de tout prestataire tiers de services TIC concerné;

c) 

la défaillance partielle ou totale des locaux, notamment des locaux de bureau et des locaux commerciaux, et des centres de données;

d) 

une défaillance substantielle des actifs de TIC ou de l’infrastructure de communication;

e) 

l’indisponibilité d’un nombre critique de membres du personnel ou de personnes chargées de garantir la continuité des opérations;

f) 

les incidences des événements liés au changement climatique et à la dégradation de l’environnement, des catastrophes naturelles, des pandémies et des attaques physiques, y compris des intrusions et des attentats terroristes;

g) 

les attaques internes;

h) 

l’instabilité politique et sociale, y compris, le cas échéant, dans la juridiction du prestataire tiers de services TIC et à l’endroit où les données sont stockées et traitées;

i) 

les coupures de courant à une grande échelle.

1. Vue d’ensemble

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1.1 Références

1.2 Exigences identifiées

1.3 Normes associées

2. Exigences identifiées

Exigences

3. Normes associées

Normes
NOREA Business Continuity Policy

Establish an ICT business continuity policy that enables the continuity of critical or important functions, ensures rapid response to incidents, facilitates the resumption of activities, deployment of containment measures, activation and deactivation of response and recovery procedures, estimation of impact, damage, and losses, and provides clear communication to relevant stakeholders. Regularly review the business continuity policy and make necessary adjustments to enhance effectiveness.

Refer to Articles 24.2-4 of the RTS RM for specific requirements for Central counterparties, Trading venues, and Central security depositories.
NOREA Crisis Management
Formulate and maintain a crisis management team tasked with overseeing and coordinating actions during a crisis or major disruption. Regularly review recovery/response plans. Make necessary adjustments to enhance effectiveness.
NOREA Record Keeping
Keep detailed records of activities conducted before, during, and after disruptions, including actions taken and outcomes. Maintain an estimation of aggregated annual costs and losses resulting from major disruptions. This information shall be reported to the regulator upon their request.
NOREA Business Impact analysis
Perform a comprehensive Business Impact Analysis (BIA) of exposures to severe business disruptions. The BIA should be done by means of quantitative and qualitative criteria, using internal and external data and scenario analysis, as appropriate. The BIA shall consider the criticality of identified and mapped business functions, support processes, third-party dependencies and information assets, and their interdependencies. Financial entities shall ensure that ICT assets and ICT services are designed and used in full alignment with the BIA, in particular with regard to adequately ensuring the redundancy of all critical components.
NOREA Response and Recovery

Establish comprehensive response and recovery plans encompassing short-term and long-term recovery options. These plans must thoroughly identify potential scenarios and shall duly take into account scenarios of cyber-attacks, switchovers, degradation of critical function provision, premises failure, breakdowns in ICT assets or communication infrastructure, staff unavailability, natural disasters and the impact of climate change, pandemic situations, physical attacks, insider threats, political or social instability, and power outages. Additionally, these plans must incorporate alternative options in cases where primary recovery measures are impractical in the short term due to factors such as cost, risks, logistics, or unforeseen circumstances. Address potential failures of key ICT third-party service providers into the plans.
NOREA Testing and Assessment

Regularly test ICT business continuity, response, and recovery plans, particularly in collaboration with third-party service providers supporting critical or important functions. Testing should  take into account the financial entity’s BIA and the ICT risk assessment and occur on a yearly basis and whenever there are significant changes to systems supporting critical or important functions. 
Tests must be based on realistic scenarios and encompass scenarios like cyber attacks, insolvency or failure of the third-party, backup restores, and switchover between primary and redundant processing sites. 
The testing shall verify whether at least critical or important functions can be operated appropriately, for a sufficient period of time and whether the normal functioning (of the business process) may be restored. Conduct testing of crisis communication plans to ensure effective communication strategies during a crisis or major disruption. Document test results and report any identified deficiencies resulting from the tests to the management body.

Refer to Articles 24.2-3 of the RTS RM for the specific requirements for Central counterparties and Central security depositories.