Does your organization conduct periodic management reviews to verify that personnel with cybersecurity risk management responsibilities have appropriate authority to fulfill their duties?

Periodic management review is the subject, specifically whether your organization regularly checks that staff with cybersecurity responsibilities hold enough authority to carry out their duties. Without proper authority, security teams may identify risks but lack the ability to implement necessary controls or influence business decisions, creating a gap between security requirements and actual implementation.

Evidence could include documentation of management review meetings (minutes, action items), formal authority delegation documents, or organizational charts showing reporting structures and decision-making authority for security roles. These should demonstrate that authority levels are periodically assessed and adjusted as needed.