A real incident rarely respects the boundary between one regulation and the next. An actively exploited vulnerability in a connected product can trigger a Cyber Resilience Act early warning, a NIS2 significant-incident notification and a GDPR personal data breach report in the same afternoon. Three clocks, three recipients, three formats, all started by one event.
The deadlines look alike on paper, which is the trap. The 24 and 72 hour figures repeat across the regimes, but the moment the clock starts, the authority that receives the report, and the content each one wants all differ. The obligation most likely to be missed is the 24-hour early warning, because it falls in the first chaotic hours when the team is still working out what happened.
Our latest analysis maps the CRA, NIS2 and GDPR notification duties against each other, shows where they genuinely overlap, and sets out a process that treats them as one workflow with three outputs rather than three separate scrambles.
Read how the notification clocks overlap and why one source of truth keeps you from missing the 24-hour early warning.
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