During a security governance workshop, a company is mapping roles to responsibilities for its new payroll application and the underlying database. According to best practices for systems and data governance, which role is responsible for approving and overseeing the development, maintenance, use, and security controls of these assets?
Third-party service providers who process data on behalf of the data owner or controller.
Personnel who physically interact with the data on a daily basis, ensuring its accuracy and integrity.
Teams responsible for performing regular audits and compliance checks on data management practices.
An individual or entity that has approved management responsibility for controlling the production, development, maintenance, use, and security of assets.
In systems and data governance, the owner is the individual or entity that has formal, management-approved responsibility for an asset throughout its life cycle. That responsibility includes ensuring the asset is properly developed, maintained, secured, and used, and that appropriate access controls and other safeguards remain in place. Custodians interact with the data day to day, processors handle data on behalf of a controller or owner, and audit teams merely verify compliance; none of those groups carry the full life-cycle accountability that defines ownership.
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