Computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs)

¹Each Member State shall designate or establish one or more CSIRTs. ²The CSIRTs may be designated or established within a competent authority. ³The CSIRTs shall comply with the requirements set out in Article 11(1), shall cover at least the sectors, subsectors and types of entity referred to in Annexes I and II, and shall be responsible for incident handling in accordance with a well-defined process.

Member States shall ensure that each CSIRT has adequate resources to carry out effectively its tasks as set out in Article 11(3).

¹Member States shall ensure that each CSIRT has at its disposal an appropriate, secure, and resilient communication and information infrastructure through which to exchange information with essential and important entities and other relevant stakeholders. ²To that end, Member States shall ensure that each CSIRT contributes to the deployment of secure information-sharing tools.

The CSIRTs shall cooperate and, where appropriate, exchange relevant information in accordance with Article 29 with sectoral or cross-sectoral communities of essential and important entities.

The CSIRTs shall participate in peer reviews organised in accordance with Article 19.

Member States shall ensure the effective, efficient and secure cooperation of their CSIRTs in the CSIRTs network.

¹The CSIRTs may establish cooperation relationships with third countries’ national computer security incident response teams. ²As part of such cooperation relationships, Member States shall facilitate effective, efficient and secure information exchange with those third countries’ national computer security incident response teams, using relevant information-sharing protocols, including the traffic light protocol. ³The CSIRTs may exchange relevant information with third countries’ national computer security incident response teams, including personal data in accordance with Union data protection law.

The CSIRTs may cooperate with third countries’ national computer security incident response teams or equivalent third-country bodies, in particular for the purpose of providing them with cybersecurity assistance.

Each Member State shall notify the Commission without undue delay of the identity of the CSIRT referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and the CSIRT designated as coordinator pursuant to Article 12(1), of their respective tasks in relation to essential and important entities, and of any subsequent changes thereto.

Member States may request the assistance of ENISA in developing their CSIRTs.