ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question

For a federal cloud-hosted financial system, after controls implementation the assessment reveals two moderate and one high residual risks. The system owner insists on going live next week. To secure stakeholder concurrence with the proposed risk acceptance, what should the CGRC professional do next?

  • Update the contract to transfer the high risk to the cloud service provider and skip internal authorization.

  • Lower the high residual risk to moderate in the SSP so it falls within organizational tolerance and proceed.

  • Draft a formal risk-acceptance memorandum and obtain signatures from the authorizing official and business owner, then add it to the authorization package.

  • List the residual risks on the POA&M and move the system to production without further approvals.

ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC)
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