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GLBA Safeguards Rule

The FTC's mandatory security program for non-banking financial institutions — encryption, MFA, penetration testing, and breach reporting for events over 500 customers.

16 CFR Part 314 (amended 2023) · Federal Trade Commission · published 2023-11-13

Standing today
Directory entry

00Answer

from the registry record
What is GLBA Safeguards Rule?
The FTC's mandatory security program for non-banking financial institutions — encryption, MFA, penetration testing, and breach reporting for events over 500 customers.
Who does GLBA Safeguards Rule apply to?
GLBA Safeguards Rule applies to financial services, lending, tax preparation, auto dealers, US, per Federal Trade Commission.
What is the current version of GLBA Safeguards Rule?
The current edition is 16 CFR Part 314 (amended 2023), issued by Federal Trade Commission and published 2023-11-13. Source: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftc-safeguards-rule-what-your-business-needs-know.
What does an assessment under GLBA Safeguards Rule require?
No control catalog has been ingested for GLBA Safeguards Rule yet — the registry tracks it as planned (Tracked metadata: we name the regime and monitor its issuing authority. No control or requirement model is implemented), so an assessment under this framework currently requires the authority's own catalog rather than a ControlFrame-parsed one.

01Standing

Directory entry

Authority and version facts, with a parsed public catalog when available; no tenant blueprint or executable evidence method is activated.

GLBA Safeguards Rule is tracked in the registry — authority, version ledger, verification — and nothing else is modelled for it yet. Import its catalog to begin.

Named and tracked only; requirements not modelled as a control catalog.

02Registry record

checked 2026-09-06
Registry status
Planned · namedTracked metadata: we name the regime and monitor its issuing authority. No control or requirement model is implemented.
Control units
Not on record — no catalog ingested and no authority-published count cited.
Control families
Information security program · Access controls · Encryption · Testing and monitoring · Breach notification
Applies to
financial services · lending · tax preparation · auto dealers · US
Verification
Primary — the issuing body's own page was read and states this version. checked 2026-09-06

03Version ledger

3 editions
16 CFR Part 314 (2003)Supersededdate not published
16 CFR Part 314 (2021 amendments)Superseded · supersedes 16 CFR Part 314 (2003)date not published
16 CFR Part 314 (amended 2023)Current edition · supersedes 16 CFR Part 314 (2021 amendments)2023-11-13

05Change history

06Related frameworks

scored from registry facts
  1. Also applies to financial services · A licensed cybersecurity and risk-management framework used across healthcare and other sectors. HITRUST offers scoped assessment and certification programs through its authorized processes; registry tracking claims no certification.

  2. Also applies to financial services · The widely used internal-control framework for operations, reporting, and compliance, including internal control over financial reporting. It supplies evaluation criteria; it is not a certification and SOX does not create a fixed IT-control catalog.

  3. Digital Operational Resilience ActRegulation (EU) 2022/2554

    Also applies to financial services · The EU digital-operational-resilience rulebook for financial entities, covering ICT risk, incidents, testing, information sharing, and third-party risk, plus an oversight framework for ICT providers designated critical.

  4. FFIEC IT Examination HandbookCurrent booklets (living collection)

    Also applies to financial services · The living technology-supervision reference used by US financial institution examiners, with current booklets, work programs, laws, and guidance. It is supervisory guidance, not a certification; the separate FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool was retired in 2025.

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