PM-29 Risk Management Program Leadership Roles
Control
Appoint a Senior Accountable Official for Risk Management to align organizational information security and privacy management processes with strategic, operational, and budgetary planning processes; and
Establish a Risk Executive (function) to view and analyze risk from an organization-wide perspective and ensure management of risk is consistent across the organization.
Discussion
The senior accountable official for risk management leads the risk executive (function) in organization-wide risk management activities.
Related controls
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