ECB AI Security Mandate
Assess your readiness, close critical gaps, and build a credible, audit-ready action plan by the October 31st deadline.
The Risk Driving the Mandate
What Is the ECB Mandate?
On July 7, 2026, the European Central Bank (ECB) instructed 110 European financial institutions
to submit comprehensive action plans by October 31st outlining how they
will address AI-enabled cybersecurity threats.
Building on DORA, the mandate requires banks to demonstrate how they’ll strengthen
cybersecurity controls as AI makes it easier for attackers to find,
exploit, and introduce vulnerabilities.
Each action plan must define clear measures, owners, resources, and timelines.
What Your Action Plan
Needs to Cover
Protect the attack surface:
Secure exposed assets, cloud environments, access controls, and aging infrastructure.
Accelerate vulnerability management:
Prioritize and fix critical vulnerabilities faster.
Strengthen detection and resilience:
Improve monitoring, response, recovery, and crisis management.
Govern software and AI risk:
Maintain oversight of third parties, open source, AI assets, and ownership.
Checkmarx Supports Your ECB Action Plan
Accelerate patching velocity
Triage and Remediation Assist identifies findings requiring immediate action and delivers merge-ready fixes directly into pull requests.
Govern third-party and open-source risk
SCA and Malicious Package Protection continuously discover dependencies and identify malicious packages before they appear in the NVD.
Inventory AI assets
AI Supply Chain Security and AI-BOM provide an inventory of the models, MCPs, tools, and agents embedded in software.
Demonstrate active risk management
ASPM and SBOM unify risk across code, open source, APIs, containers, and infrastructure, while tracking remediation progress.
Start Building Your ECB Action Plan
ECB Mandate Solution Brief
See how Checkmarx One maps the ECB’s requirements to practical actions across vulnerability management, software supply chain risk, AI governance, and reporting.
AI AppSec Program Maturity Assessment (AI APMA)
Benchmark your program against ECB expectations and find your AI security gaps before the October 31st deadline.
The Future of Application Security Report
See the AI-driven risk data behind the ECB’s mandate, and why regulators are moving on it now.
Checkmarx Fusion
Fuses deterministic scanning with frontier AI models to catch the vulnerabilities the ECB is asking banks to close.
The October 31, 2026
Deadline Is Approaching
Assess your readiness, identify critical gaps, and take the next steps toward a credible response.
