CC4 Monitoring Activities Imagine you’re looking at your weekly backup report. Every job succeeded. Nothing needs your attention, so you move on. A few weeks later, your team runs a restoration exercise. The backup is there, but nobody running the exercise can retrieve the key needed to decrypt it. Recovery
Imagine someone on your team removes an approval step to make a routine process easier. The change looks sensible to the people doing the work. Then, at the next risk meeting, you discover that the step was there to protect a customer commitment. Nobody asked the control owner before it
Consider deliberate misuse before it happens Imagine your team is gathering evidence for a customer review. Someone notices that several access reviews required by your policy were completed late. A manager suggests changing the dates so the records look consistent with the process. That’s an uncomfortable moment, and it’s worth
Give the risk a useful description Imagine opening your risk register and finding an entry labeled “data loss,” rated high. Your engineering team points to the daily backups, and everyone moves on. Then you run a recovery exercise. Restoring a large customer account takes longer than the recovery time you’ve
Agree on the result before assessing the risk Imagine you’re reviewing the week’s backup reports. Every job finished successfully, so the team feels good about recovery. Then a customer asks how quickly you could bring the service back. Sales says a few hours. Engineering says a full business day. Nobody
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