Who is accountable for ensuring proper controls are in place to address the confidentiality and availability of an information system?
Who is accountable for ensuring proper controls are in place to address the confidentiality and availability of an information system?
Senior management is ultimately accountable for ensuring the proper controls are in place to address the confidentiality and availability of an information system. They are responsible for setting the strategic direction, defining policies, allocating resources, and making decisions regarding risk management and control implementation. While information security managers and other roles are responsible for implementing and managing these controls, the overall accountability lies with senior management to ensure that these measures are established, maintained, and continuously improved to protect organizational information assets.
Yes, the answer should be D.
A is correct, but answer is misspelled "Information Owner". Information owner owns the risk of implementing proper controls.
The answer is C. If your system compromised due to lack of security controls and launched a counter attack against another company's system, who will be ultimately accountability over this? It has to be Senior Management.
It should be D
C. Senior Management is accountable. Information Security Manager is responsible
C. Senior management I based the answer on the keyword "accountable." Senior management holds the ultimate accountability for ensuring proper controls are in place to address the confidentiality and availability of an information system. They are responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organization, defining policies and objectives, allocating resources, and making decisions regarding risk management and control implementation. It is their role to provide oversight and governance to ensure that the necessary controls are established, maintained, and continuously improved to protect the organization's information assets. The information security manager, business managers, and other stakeholders play important roles in implementing and supporting these controls, but ultimate accountability lies with senior management.
C. Senior management Senior management is ultimately accountable for ensuring proper controls are in place to address the confidentiality and availability of an information system. While the Information Security Manager plays a crucial role in implementing and managing these controls, the responsibility for overall governance and accountability rests with senior management within an organization. Senior management sets the strategic direction and policies for information security, allocates resources, and is responsible for making sure that the necessary measures are in place to protect the confidentiality and availability of information systems.
C.Senior Management , in most cases SM is accountable .CISO is the responsible person for CIA triad.
Agreed
Senior management is account table for ensuring. IS Manager is accountable for enforcing. the question is asking about ensuring and not enforcing.
I did get thrown off by "information order" but like one the below comments says, if it's a typo and it means Information Owner then this definitely is the right answer. The respective owners are always accountable. ISM is a information custodian not the information owner.
Senior management should be accountable.
C. Senior management Senior management is ultimately accountable for ensuring proper controls are in place to address the confidentiality and availability of an information system. While the Information Security Manager plays a crucial role in implementing and managing these controls, the responsibility for overall governance and accountability rests with senior management within an organization. Senior management sets the strategic direction and policies for information security, allocates resources, and is responsible for making sure that the necessary measures are in place to protect the confidentiality and availability of information systems.
Ultimately accountable is much different from accountable...ultimately accountable is the highest level of accountability. Information owner and business owners are delegated accountability. I would agree with A. Information owner.
CRM 3.1: sen. management wantsto understand the specific risk ... and why the controls it mandates are a sound investment...
it's D, it's the accountable and not the ultimate accountable in case of breach
D. Information security manager