On 15 April 2025 the FSb published a Format for Incident Reporting Exchange (FIRE), designed to streamline cyber incident reporting. To facilitate adoption of FIRE globally, the following technical supporting standards are also published and available for downloading along with the FIRE reporting requirements:

DPM Data Dictionary

This is the data dictionary, in DPM 1.0., providing the structured representation of the data required for FIRE reporting.

Data Point Model (DPM) is a data centric method for organising business terms and concepts hierarchically. It presents data in various reporting scenarios derived from the underlying legal requirements in a business friendly and non-technical manner. DPM bridges the communications gap between business and IT by providing a necessary common understanding. Business concepts are specified in the DPM according to formal rules required by IT specialists, while remaining manageable by policy experts and other data users.

The DPM method provides a precise, complete and unambiguous definition of terms and concepts. This enables building logical structures of information requirements (such as messages, tables, data sets or cubes) based on underlying business dictionaries that can be understood by both business and technical users. Developed through cooperation between European stakeholders, DPM is now contained in ISO 5116 and is used by various national and international regulators.

Download: FIRE DPM v1.0 (zip file | 428 KB)

Validation rules

Validation rules are tests to be applied to reported data to check its consistency.

If the result of a validation rule to a set of data is true, the data reported is consistent according to that rule. If the result is false, the reported information presents an inconsistency that should be checked or corrected.

Download: FIRE validation rules v1.0 (xlsx file | 25 KB)

XBRL taxonomy

FIRE report with XBRL tagging to support the report submission.

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a standard for digital reporting of financial, performance, risk and compliance information. It is a freely licensed, open standard available to all.

The provided XBRL taxonomy is an example. If implemented by a national authority, this taxonomy would facilitate reporting by entities in formats such as XBRL-XML or xBRL-CSV. Some jurisdictions already have existing XBRL-based reporting mechanisms, while others may choose to use different methods for implementation.

There are a variety of XBRL tools – both open source and enterprise-wide – available for institutions to facilitate the validation and creation of XBRL reports.

In its simplest form, an Excel plug-in could provide the FIRE template, and after updating, it could run the validation rule along with the generation of the submission-ready XBRL file. Institutions can explore various software solutions that meet their specific needs, including open-source options, to effectively manage their XBRL reporting requirements.

More information about XBRL and supporting software is available on the XBRL International website.

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The FSB will maintain this taxonomy package and may publish new versions of it, for example, if new DPM and/or XBRL functionalities become available.