Risk Owner
What is Risk Owner?
The individual or team accountable for managing a specific risk, including implementing risk treatment plans and monitoring risk levels. Risk ownership ensures clear accountability for risk management activities.
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Requirements naming risk owner across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Input: the treatment plans. Action: risk owners approve them. Trigger: the plans need approval. Output: approved plans. Once formulated, each plan is approved by the risk owners, who also decide on accepting the residual risks against the defined acceptance cr...
iso-27005-2022::8.6.2 · Approval by risk owners →Agencies must make sure each system falls under a Security Risk Management Plan (SRMP), and that plan must identify the owners of the risks.
new-zealand-information-security-manual-nzism::5.1.9.C.01 · 5.1.9.C.01 Security Risk Management Plan with named risk owners →Information need: whether change management best practice and the hardening policy are respected. Measure: the percentage of newly installed systems that respected change management best practice and the hardening policy;
iso-iec-27004-2016::B.22 · Change management →Route every deviation from security policies, instructions and the related controls through the risk management process, secure risk owner approval and residual risk acceptance, record each deviation with a defined expiry, and have risk owners reconfirm its ap...
C5-SP-03 · Exceptions from Existing Policies and Instructions →Define and use a risk treatment process that picks treatment options in the light of the assessment results; works out every control the chosen options need, from any source; checks those controls against Annex A of ISO/IEC 27001 so nothing needed is missed;
isoiec-270032017::6.1.3 · Information security risk treatment →The organization should implement the risk treatment plans through the initiative's development and change processes, with the risk owners carrying out the controls on the planned timing and the action items of 5.2 tracked to completion, so that the PIA change...
iso-iec-29134-2023::6.5.3 · 6.5.3 Implement privacy risk treatment plans →Questions people ask about risk owner
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