Control Environment
What is Control Environment?
The set of standards, processes, and structures that provide the foundation for carrying out internal control across an organisation. The control environment is established by leadership and sets the tone for the organisation.
Terms that appear alongside control environment
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as control environment. The number is how many controls name both.
- internal control 7 shared controls
- integrity 4 shared controls
- risk assessment 3 shared controls
- governance 3 shared controls
- accountability 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern control environment
What the standards actually require on control environment
Requirements naming control environment across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The institution evaluates the adequacy of each provider's internal and security controls, ensures the provider adheres to appropriate policies, procedures and standards, considers internal audits by its own staff or a user group and external audits and control...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::OTS-17 · General Control Environment of the Service Provider (Outsourcing Technology Services) →Operational resilience is overseen. Foundational: board and senior management ownership; monitoring through the risk framework and control environment;
principles-for-doing-business-at-lloyd-s::P12.2 · 12.2 Maintain oversight of operational resilience through governance and the risk and control environment →Implement financial controls and non-financial controls that manage fraud risk, the latter across areas such as procurement, operations, sales, commercial dealings, human resources, legal matters, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory activities, and sustain...
iso-37003-2025::8.2.4 · Internal controls and the internal control environment →Operational resilience is governed and overseen. Foundational: the managing agent's operational resilience is owned and overseen by senior management and the board, and is monitored through the control environment and the risk management framework;
lloyd-s-minimum-standards-cyber-security::P12.2 · 12.2 Maintain oversight of operational resilience through governance processes and the risk and control environment →The description sets out whatever else about the service organisation is relevant to the services: its control environment, how it assesses risk, its information and communication (business processes included), its control activities and how it monitors, the C...
soc-1-ssae-18::B.10 · SOC 1 B.10 Describe the other relevant aspects of the control environment, risk assessment, information and communication, control activities and monitoring →The bank has adequate systems to identify, measure, evaluate, monitor, report and control or mitigate interest rate risk in the banking book on a timely basis (trading book rate risk falls under Principle 22), considering appetite, profile and conditions: an i...
basel-core-principles-for-effective-banking-supervision-2024::P23 · Principle 23: interest rate risk in the banking book →Questions people ask about control environment
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