Compliance
20 guides tagged “Compliance”.
- What Is an Agent Audit Trail? An agent audit trail records what the agent did, with which identity, on whose instruction, and with what result — outside the agent's control.
- China ICP License Requirements: What You Need Before You Apply Requirements split into entity, domain, hosting, content, and identity checks. One inconsistent item is the usual reason an application is returned.
- How to Check an ICP Filing Number ICP numbers follow a fixed format and are verified on the MIIT portal. How to read one, check it, and spot a copied or expired record.
- How to Get an ICP License in China (Step by Step) An ICP license is applied for through a licensed hosting provider in your entity's province. The sequence, documents, and where applications stall.
- What Does ICP Filing Cost? The filing itself has no official fee. The real cost is mainland hosting, the entity, translations, and agent fees for a commercial license.
- ICP Filing Documents: The Checklist Entity, domain, hosting, identity, and content documents must agree. Here is the checklist reviewers compare, and what causes rejection.
- How Long Does ICP Filing Take? Plan about a month from a complete submission. Entity setup, domain verification, and correction loops take longer than the provincial review.
- What Happens If You Operate in China Without ICP Filing? Mainland hosting without a filing is blocked at the access layer, and a business faces rectification orders and penalties. The domain can also suffer.
- Types of ICP License: Filing, Commercial, and EDI Compared Filing is the non-commercial record; the commercial ICP license permits charging; EDI covers transactions. Choosing the wrong track is costly.
- What Is PSB Filing (公安备案)? PSB filing is the public security registration that follows ICP filing, completed on the national platform within a window after go-live.
- How to Inventory Non-Human Identities An NHI inventory lists every credential, owner, scope, and last use. Start with APIs that already know, then fill gaps with code scanning.
- The Non-Human Identity Lifecycle Request, issue, use, rotate, review, revoke. Most organisations have the first two stages and skip the rest, which is why credentials accumulate.
- What Is ICP Filing (and Why Do China's Cloud Hosts Require It)? ICP Filing (ICP备案) is a mandatory government registration for any website or app hosted on mainland China servers. What it costs (nothing), how long it takes (~20 business days), and what happens if you skip it (your site gets blocked).
- Does Hosting Behind a CDN in China Require an ICP Filing? A mainland CDN edge node serves content from inside China, so it needs a filing for the accelerated domain. An overseas CDN with edges near the mainland does not.
- How to Renew an ICP Filing (and What Happens If It Lapses) ICP filings do not renew like a certificate. They stay valid while the domain, entity, and hosting provider stay aligned, and are re-verified periodically. Here is how to keep one alive.
- Does a Foreign Company Need a Chinese Entity for an ICP Filing? Filing requires a mainland-registered legal person or a Chinese citizen. Hong Kong companies do not qualify. This is the constraint that decides whether mainland hosting is available to you.
- ICP Filing vs ICP License: What's the Difference? An ICP filing registers a website with China's telecom authority; an ICP license is a commercial permit for revenue-generating services. Different paperwork, different eligibility.
- Do You Need an ICP Filing for an App, API, or Mini Program? The filing follows the server, not the interface. An API, a mobile app backend, and a mini program all trigger the same requirement when they run on mainland infrastructure.
- How to Serve Users in China Without an ICP Filing You can serve mainland users from Hong Kong, Singapore, or a global edge network with no filing. Here is how to set it up and what to measure.
- Hosting in Hong Kong vs Mainland China: What Actually Changes Mainland hosting buys you low latency and a compliance regime; Hong Kong gives you global connectivity and no filing. The trade-off is sharper than the latency numbers suggest.