What this control covers
Assigns a top management member as process owner for business continuity, ensuring resource allocation and employee engagement. Demonstrates leadership to maintain effective continuity processes, protecting cloud customer data and services.
Why it matters
Risk is the language an executive team understands; this control connects technical reality to board-level decisions and budget allocation.
How to implement
AWS
Codify the policy intent as SCPs, AWS Config conformance packs, and Security Hub standards so the cloud enforces what the document says.
Azure
Codify in Azure Policy initiatives (built-in regulatory compliance for CIS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA) and assign at management-group level.
GCP
Org Policy Service for guardrails and Config Validator in CI to pre-check Terraform plans against policy as code (Rego).
On-premises
Maintain a policy library with a documented review cadence (annual minimum); store in your GRC tool with attestation tracking. Map each policy to controls so an audit pull cites the exact policy clause.
Evidence to collect
policy_document— A signed, version-controlled policy stating leadership intent and the named owner.infra_scan— See the iCompaas Evidence library for the canonical source for this evidence type.
Signed policy or standard documents the safeguard. Focus: Top management responsibility.
Quick checklist
- Risk — Cloud Customer Data / Management Responsibility
- Responsibility — Cloud Customer Data / Management Responsibility
- Data — Cloud Customer Data / Management Responsibility
- Policy — Cloud Customer Data / Management Responsibility
- Process — Cloud Customer Data / Management Responsibility
- Top — Cloud Customer Data / Management Responsibility