Information sharing occurs because it enhances decision-making, coordination, and outcomes for individuals, teams, and entire systems.
Public bodies and enterprises also share information to meet regulatory requirements, improve services, and manage compliance and budget more effectively.
In cybersecurity and safety domains, sharing threat or incident information enables collective defense, raising the cost for attackers and lowering overall systemic risk.
Requirements describe necessary functions, performance levels, constraints, and environmental conditions, forming the measurable basis for design, implementation, and verification.
Regulations set technical standards, processes, or obligations. Violations may lead to inspections, sanctions, or other enforcement actions within the agency’s jurisdiction. Requirements can arise from regulations, laws, contracts, internal policies, standards, or customer needs—not just from regulators.
Policies translate objectives, values, and external obligations (laws, regulations, standards) into internal requirements based on a set of rules.
Regulations and policies are defined as a set of requirements.
Organizations create regulations and policies defined as a set of internal and external requirements. Regulations contain requirements. Requirements can be internally or externally defined and include predefined standards.
Templates can be created and shared by anyone. Templates should be based on a clear set of requirements.
Regulators can define a template that can be shared (used or duplicated) by any organization.
The use of data points supports secure data sharing repositories and information, safely and securely with multiple parties simultaneously.
Data points support the safe reuse of data elements in multiple templates for multiple targets.