Executive Sponsorship
What is Executive Sponsorship?
Active support and advocacy from a senior executive for a program, project, or initiative, providing visibility, resources, and organizational authority.
Terms that appear alongside executive sponsorship
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as executive sponsorship. The number is how many controls name both.
- governance 6 shared controls
- remediation 2 shared controls
- cybersecurity 2 shared controls
- program governance 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern executive sponsorship
What the standards actually require on executive sponsorship
Requirements naming executive sponsorship across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Kotter 8-Step Step 7 - Sustain Acceleration. Use credibility from wins to change all systems + structures + policies that do not fit the vision + hire + promote + develop people who can implement the vision + reinvigorate the process with new projects + themes...
KOTTER-Step7-Sustain-Acceleration-Dual-Operating-System-Network-Hierarchy-Successive-Waves-Continuous-Volunteer-Energy · Kotter Step 7 Sustain Acceleration + Dual Operating System + Successive Waves →Define cyber security governance with executive sponsorship, accountable roles, segregation of duties, and program oversight for pipeline SCADA.
API1164-03 · Governance and Roles →Establish a documented cybersecurity program with executive sponsorship covering IT and OT environments at the water utility.
AWWA-G430-1 · Cybersecurity Program Governance →HKMA C-RAF iCAST (Intelligence-led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing) - mandatory for HIGH inherent risk AIs + optional for medium tier + modeled on UK CBEST + ECB TIBER-EU (verified separately in this corpus) + intelligence-led red team testing methodology.
HKMA-CRAF-iCAST-RedTeam-PurpleTeam-IntelLed · HKMA C-RAF iCAST (Intelligence-Led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing) for HIGH Inherent Risk AIs →Kuwait National Cybersecurity Framework (NCF) Govern function. Issued and maintained by Kuwait National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) under Council of Ministers Resolution.
KNCF-Govern-Strategy-Policy-NCSC-NIST-CSF-2-0-ISO-27001-Council-of-Ministers-Compliance-Assurance · Kuwait NCF Govern + Strategy + Policy + NCSC + NIST CSF 2.0 + ISO 27001 + Compliance Assurance →Establish an enterprise governance structure for cyber supply chain risk management with executive sponsorship, decision rights, and integration with enterprise risk management.
SCRM-GOV-1 · C-SCRM Governance Structure →Questions people ask about executive sponsorship
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