19filers, current period
3the period before
32controls it touches
21frameworks
The long view
Filings containing this phrase, every month since 2008. The last
point is the current month and is still filling, so it always looks lower than it will be.
2008
peak 59 in February 2024
2026
Share this finding
More than four times as many companies as last week. The card below carries the whole finding, so it makes
sense to somebody who never clicks through.
Who disclosed it
From SEC full-text search over 8-K filings. Every row links to the filing itself.
| Company | Form | Filed | |
|---|
| EQUIFAX INC EFX | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| FIVE BELOW, INC FIVE | 8-K | 2026-07-22 | filing |
| NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP NSC | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| Standard Nuclear, Inc. STDN | 8-K | 2026-07-22 | filing |
| Knowles Corp KN | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| American Airlines Group Inc. AAL | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES INC WST | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| Aether Holdings, Inc. ATHR | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| Hilltop Holdings Inc. HTH | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| UNION PACIFIC CORP UNP | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST BDN | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
The full search on EDGAR
How it actually arrives
An 8-K's meaning is in its item number, not its text. These are the items the filings
containing this phrase were filed under. The first group is something that happened to the
company. The second is the phrase turning up in the ordinary course of reporting, most often in
an earnings release, which is a very different thing and is usually the larger number.
| Filed because something happened |
Companies |
|---|
| Other material event Item 8.01 | 27 |
| Director or officer departure Item 5.02 | 9 |
| Material cybersecurity incident Item 1.05 | 5 |
| Bankruptcy or receivership Item 1.03 | 2 |
| Change of accountant Item 4.01 | 1 |
| Mentioned in routine reporting |
Companies |
|---|
| Financial statements and exhibits Item 9.01 | 85 |
| Results of operations, the earnings release Item 2.02 | 45 |
| Entry into a material agreement Item 1.01 | 28 |
| Regulation FD disclosure Item 7.01 | 25 |
| Completion of an acquisition Item 2.01 | 4 |
| Shareholder vote Item 5.07 | 1 |
This is why a headline count on its own overstates the case.
Where the routine number dominates, the phrase is being tracked as language rather than as
events.
Which industries file it
Companies grouped by the industry classification on their own filing. A count, not a
survey.
| Industry | | Companies |
|---|
| Banking | | 9 |
| Instruments and medical devices | | 8 |
| Software and IT services | | 7 |
| Electronics and electrical equipment | | 6 |
| Health services | | 6 |
| Holding and investment offices | | 6 |
| Airlines | | 5 |
| Retail | | 5 |
| Chemicals and pharmaceuticals | | 4 |
| Wholesale trade | | 4 |
What it obligates
Our corpus holds 32 controls across
21 frameworks whose text speaks to this. Not a judgement:
these controls say so, and each is one lookup from its source document. Ordered by how much each
framework has to say about it, so the one that will cost you the most work is first. Every name
opens that framework in the corpus.
What an auditor will ask you to produce
The artefacts named on those controls, most frequently cited first.
- Incident response plan and playbooks
- NCA ECC Domain 3 evidence
- Recovery plan and IT disaster-recovery procedures
- Recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO)
- Recovery plan test results and restoration records
- Tabletop exercise reports
- Incident ticket history with timelines
- Forensic toolkit and chain-of-custody log
How it usually fails
Recorded when each control was verified against its source. This is where programmes
that think they are covered turn out not to be.
- NCA compliance + Essential Eight equivalent partial
- Recovery plan untested
- RTO/RPO not defined or not met in tests
- Backups not validated for restorability
- Playbooks untested for major scenarios
- Unclear escalation thresholds
Where this comes from
The left half is public record: SEC full-text search over 8-K filings, counted across a
7 day window against the equivalent window before it. You can check
every row.
The right half is ours: 723 frameworks and
20,473 controls, 531 of those frameworks verified against
their source documents, with the auditor evidence and common failure modes recorded control by
control. Controls appear here because their own text names this term.
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