Succession Planning
What is Succession Planning?
The process of identifying and developing future leaders and key personnel to ensure continuity of critical roles and organizational knowledge.
Terms that appear alongside succession planning
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as succession planning. The number is how many controls name both.
- performance management 4 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- governance 4 shared controls
- resilience 3 shared controls
- due diligence 2 shared controls
- integrity 2 shared controls
- data quality 2 shared controls
- strategic planning 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern succession planning
What the standards actually require on succession planning
Requirements naming succession planning across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Human capital area 9 of eleven, a disclosure topic of the metrics and targets area (Table 1). Metrics' focus: how resilient the organization's workforce is.
iso-30414-2025::HCA.9 · Mobility and succession planning (human capital area) →The teams and expertise in place meet what the business needs, including strategic projects, routine deliverables, and research and development.
principles-for-doing-business-at-lloyd-s::P2.4 · 2.4 Exposure management teams and expertise →Key IT staff are identified, and dependence on one person to carry out any critical role is kept as low as possible by capturing and sharing knowledge, planning succession and providing backup staff.
cobit-2019::APO07.02 · APO07.02 Identify key IT personnel →A program covers recruitment, retention and succession planning for cybersecurity and resilience staff.
ffiec-cybersecurity-assessment-tool-cat::D1.R.St.Int.1 · D1.R.St.Int.1 Staffing (Intermediate 1) →The board or an appropriate board committee should review and approve a written talent management program covering development, recruitment and succession planning for those individuals, their direct reports and other potential successors.
occ-heightened-standards-12-cfr-part-30-appendix-d::II.L.2 · II.L.2 Board talent role: Approve a written talent management program →Assigned cybersecurity responsibilities are managed for adequate coverage and redundancy, including succession planning, staffing analysis and funding.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::WORKFORCE-3f · WORKFORCE-3f: Coverage, redundancy and succession managed →Questions people ask about succession planning
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