Certified Information Security Manager

Establish and/or maintain a process for information asset classification to ensure that measures taken to protect assets are proportional to their business value.

Identify legal, regulatory, organizational and other applicable requirements to manage the risk of noncompliance to acceptable levels.

Ensure that risk assessments, vulnerability assessments and threat analyses are conducted consistently, at appropriate times, and to identify and assess risk to the organization’s information.

Identify, recommend or implement appropriate risk treatment/response options to manage risk to acceptable levels based on organizational risk appetite.

Determine whether information security controls are appropriate and effectively manage risk to an acceptable level.

Facilitate the integration of information risk management into business and IT processes (e.g., systems development, procurement, project management) to enable a consistent and comprehensive information risk management program across the organization.

Monitor for internal and external factors (e.g., key risk indicators [KRIs], threat landscape, and geopolitical, regulatory change) that may require reassessment of risk to ensure that changes to existing, or new, risk scenarios are identified and managed appropriately.

Report noncompliance and other changes in information risk to facilitate the risk management decision-making process.

Ensure that information security risk is reported to senior management to support an understanding of potential impact on the organizational goals and objectives.

Establish and/or maintain the information security program in alignment with the information security strategy.

Align the information security program with the operational objectives of other business functions (e.g., human resources [HR], accounting, procurement and IT) to ensure that the information security program adds value to and protects the business.

Identify, acquire and manage requirements for internal and external resources to execute the information security program.

Establish and maintain information security processes and resources (including people and technologies) to execute the information security program in alignment with the organization’s business goals.

Establish, communicate and maintain organizational information security standards, guidelines, procedures and other documentation to guide and enforce compliance with information security policies.

Establish, promote and maintain a program for information security awareness and training to foster an effective security culture.

Integrate information security requirements into organizational processes (e.g., change control, mergers and acquisitions, system development, business continuity, disaster recovery) to maintain the organization’s security strategy.

Integrate information security requirements into contracts and activities of third parties (e.g., joint ventures, outsourced providers, business partners, customers) and monitor adherence to established requirements in order to maintain the organization’s security strategy.

Establish, monitor and analyze program management and operational metrics to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the information security program.

Compile and present reports to key stakeholders on the activities, trends and overall effectiveness of the IS program and the underlying business processes in order to communicate security performance.