ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
While drafting the control-implementation plan for a new public-facing SaaS system, the security manager must prove that every chosen security control satisfies organizational policy, applicable privacy laws, and NIST SP 800-53 requirements. Which activity best accomplishes this alignment before resources and timelines are finalized?
Secure executive funding approval and delegate any remaining compliance analysis to the system owner after deployment is complete.
Create a traceability matrix that links every selected control to corresponding organizational policies, applicable laws and regulations, and NIST SP 800-53 control references.
Adopt only the organization's existing common control baseline, assuming it automatically meets all internal and external requirements.
Focus first on implementing the least technically complex controls and address compliance mapping during the post-implementation review.
Creating a control-to-requirement traceability matrix (sometimes called a compliance matrix) lets the team explicitly map each proposed security control to the full spectrum of obligations-internal policies and risk appetite, national or international laws and regulations, and framework-specific control requirements such as NIST SP 800-53. Building this matrix early ensures that gaps or overlaps are found before budgets are committed, resources assigned, and schedules locked. Simply ranking controls by technical difficulty, securing funding first, or assuming common controls cover everything can leave critical compliance needs unidentified until late in the project lifecycle, resulting in costly rework or residual risk.
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