Governance roles and responsibilities policy
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For leadership and the ISMS owner to assign information security authority, responsibilities, deputies, conflicts, escalation and review across the defined ISMS scope.
- Document type
- Policy
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-15
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Internal use
Description
For leadership and the ISMS owner to assign information security authority, responsibilities, deputies, conflicts, escalation and review across the defined ISMS scope.
Contents
- Document control
- Purpose of this policy
- Assign owners to security decisions
- Define authority for each decision
- Record delegated authority and retained accountability
- Delegation record requirements
- Combine small-team roles without self-approval
- Preserve entity and service authority boundaries
- Plan authority during absence and turnover
- Define forum decision authority
- Assign an internal owner for outsourced security activities
- Record escalation decisions and open states
- Test role design in operating scenarios
- Equip each role to exercise its authority
- Prepare complete decision packets
- Related governance policies and procedures
- Test a decision through the authority model
Version history
- v1.015/09/2026