NIST 800-53 Rev. 5

PM-29: Risk Management Program Leadership Roles

Control Text:

a. Appoint a Senior Accountable Official for Risk Management to align organizational information security and privacy management processes with strategic, operational, and budgetary planning processes; and b. Establish a Risk Executive (function) to view and analyze risk from an organization-wide perspective and ensure management of risk is consistent across the organization.

The senior accountable official for risk management leads the risk executive (function) in organization-wide risk management activities.

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