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PM-29 Risk Management Program Leadership Roles

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
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unchanged PM

Title

Risk Management Program Leadership Roles

Control

a. Appoint a Senior Accountable Official for Risk Management to align organizational information security and privacy management processes with strategic, operational, and budgetary planning processes; and
b. Establish a Risk Executive (function) to view and analyze risk from an organization-wide perspective and ensure management of risk is consistent across the organization.

Discussion

The senior accountable official for risk management leads the risk executive (function) in organization-wide risk management activities.

Related controls

pm-19, pm-2

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).