Episode 37 — Define Security Roles and Responsibilities Across Teams and Third Parties
This episode focuses on defining security roles and responsibilities across internal teams and third parties, which ISSMP tests because unclear accountability is a major root cause of control failures, audit findings, and slow incident response. You will learn how to establish ownership for governance, risk acceptance, control operation, evidence production, and remediation, and how to clarify boundaries in shared responsibility models with cloud and managed services. Scenarios include defining who owns data classification decisions, who approves exceptions, who operates logging, and who performs access reviews when responsibilities span IT, security, development, business owners, and vendors. Best practices include aligning responsibilities to authority, documenting expectations in policies and contracts, defining escalation paths, and ensuring separation of duties where required. Troubleshooting addresses matrixed organizations, conflicting stakeholder claims, and third parties that resist accountability, with techniques to negotiate clear deliverables and preserve traceable decision records. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
