Define, communicate and monitor information security responsibilities.

Gain ongoing commitment from senior leadership and other stakeholders.

Develop business cases to support investments in information security.

Establish internal and external reporting and communication channels.

Identify internal and external influences to the organization.

Develop and maintain information security policies.

Integrate information security governance into corporate governance.

Establish and maintain an information security governance framework.

Develop an information security strategy, aligned with business goals and directives.

Ensure that information security risk is reported to senior management to support an understanding of potential impact on the organizational goals and objectives.

Report noncompliance and other changes in information risk to facilitate the risk management decision-making process.

Monitor for internal and external factors (e.g., threat landscape, cybersecurity, geopolitical, regulatory change) that may require reassessment of risk to ensure that changes to existing or new risk scenarios are identified and managed appropriately.

Facilitate the integration of information risk management into business and IT processes to enable a consistent and comprehensive information risk management program across the organization.

Determine whether information security controls are appropriate and effectively manage risk to an acceptable level.

Identify, recommend or implement appropriate risk treatment/response options to manage risk to acceptable levels based on organizational risk appetite.

Ensure that risk assessments, vulnerability assessments and threat analyses are conducted consistently, and at appropriate times, to identify and assess risk to the organization’s information.

Identify legal, regulatory, organizational and other applicable requirements to manage the risk of noncompliance to acceptable levels.

Establish and/or maintain a process for information asset classification to ensure that measures taken to protect assets are proportional to their business value.

Align incident response plan with DRP and BCP.

Determine the root cause of IS incidents.

Establish communication plans and processes.

Test and review the incident response plan.

Establish teams that effectively respond to information security incidents.

Develop incident escalation and communication processes.

Develop processes to investigate and document information security incidents.

Develop processes for timely identification of information security incidents.

Establish an incident response plan.

Define (types of) information security incidents.