Information security officer
Information security officer, CISO, IT risk manager
Owns the vulnerability management program and decides how risk is handled when a finding cannot be fixed in time.
Sees
- All findings, assets and scan results across the institution
- Remediation progress against the targets you set
- The risk acceptance register
- Program reporting for management and examiners
Does
- Sets remediation targets by severity
- Approves or rejects risk acceptances
- Approves changes to scan scope that remove assets
- Decides escalation of overdue findings
- Presents program results to management and the board
Cannot
- Approve a risk acceptance they requested themselves without a second approver
- Delete findings or scan history
- Edit the audit trail