Other Governance Considerations

In the final section, we will briefly touch upon some other areas that need to be considered as part of the overall governance for your cybersecurity program. Although we didn’t go into a lot of detail about the GRC application modules within the GRC Application section, it will be important for you to understand each of the modules in more detail and why they are important. As you look to centralize your GRC components, you will find the overall management of your cybersecurity program becomes much more efficient as you unify all data points.

This only becomes more advantageous as we need to share more with executive leadership and the board of directors.

We didn’t cover risk, compliance, and regulations in this chapter as there is enough content for each to take up their own chapters, which will follow this chapter. Both risk and compliance tie very closely into governance as they comprise the lifecycle of your GRC program....