PS-9 Position Descriptions

Control

Incorporate security and privacy roles and responsibilities into organizational position descriptions.

Discussion

Specification of security and privacy roles in individual organizational position descriptions facilitates clarity in understanding the security or privacy responsibilities associated with the roles and the role-based security and privacy training requirements for the roles.

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