A business unit wants to launch a new service despite a known failure dependency and assigns the risk to security. The security function controls neither service scope nor budget. Establish who owns the business risk and what protection security can provide, then develop a service catalogue for work with business leaders.
Compare a delayed launch, conditional launch and risk acceptance against business consequences, resources and authority. If the budget for a measure disappears, revise the assignment. For your own area or the case, develop a security service catalogue and a table recording risk owners, resources and checks on protective effect.
The result supports work with business leaders. Risk acceptance and budget decisions remain with the authorised organisational role.
What you will work on
Connect business objectives, protected assets and risk owners for a defined area
Derive security services and priorities from specific risks and make resource assumptions explicit
Work through a security assignment with a conflicting business priority
Who it is for
Security leaders
Enterprise risk managers
Business area leaders with protection responsibilities
Topics
Business objectives and protected assets
Risk ownership and the security advisory role
Security strategy and service portfolio
Priorities and resources
Performance evidence, limits of inference and management review
Your result
Your security service catalogue and management table connect business risks with assignments, resources and questions about protective effect. Use them in ongoing work with business units.
Prerequisites
Experience in enterprise security or risk management and knowledge of a business area. Work on your own organisation requires access to the relevant business information; otherwise, use a case study.
Format and approach
Planned as eight to ten hours of self-study, with strategy drafting and a self-check.
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