Article 3 TCT and TLPT Test Managers

To ensure that the TLPT benefits from the experience developed in the framework of TIBER-EU implementation and to reduce the risks associated to the performance of TLPT, it should be ensured that the responsibilities of the TLPT cyber teams to be set up at the level of TLPT authorities match as closely as possible those of the TIBER-EU cyber teams. Hence, the TLPT cyber teams should have test managers that are responsible for overseeing individual TLPTs and for planning and coordinating individual tests. TLPT cyber teams should serve as a single point of contact for test-related communication to internal and external stakeholders, for collecting and processing feedback and lessons learned from previously conducted tests, and for supporting financial entities undergoing TLPT testing.

To mirror the TIBER-EU framework methodology, test managers should have the skills and capabilities necessary to provide advice and to challenge tester proposals. Experience under the TIBER-EU framework has proven that it is valuable to have a team of at least two test managers assigned to each test. To reflect that the TLPT is used to encourage the learning experience, to safeguard the confidentiality of tests, and unless they have resources or expertise issues, TLPT authorities are strongly encouraged to consider that, for the duration of a TLPT, test managers should not conduct supervisory activities on the same financial entity undergoing a TLPT.