SFS D: Roles, Responsibilities, Authorities, and Security Policy

All 16 sets · What is an SFS?

Assess whether security duties, decision authority, policies, and operating procedures have clear owners and documented review arrangements.

Scope and boundaries

This set covers organizational accountability, policy approval, responsibilities, exception decisions, supplier oversight, workforce awareness, and escalation authority. Questions should connect each duty to an identified role and evidence that the relevant procedure has been communicated or followed. Governance defines who is responsible and authorized; technical enforcement is assessed in the relevant infrastructure or application set. Operational incident handling belongs to SFS 6, while engineering risk-treatment practices belong to SFS 8.

The sixteen questions

This set has sixteen SF positions, 0–F. Each position is one question, not another set. All questions below are unreviewed placeholders; no assessment result has been recorded.

From questions to a profile

Only reviewed, accepted 0/1 assessments can populate the sixteen-bit set profile. SF 0 is the most significant bit and SF F is the least significant bit. The completed result uses four hexadecimal digits, including leading zeros. There is no completed profile for this draft set.

Read assessment and validation, then encoding. A set profile preserves individual answers; it is not a summed security score.