DSP-06 Data Ownership and Stewardship
For each documented set of personal or sensitive data that matters, the owner and the steward are recorded, and that record is reviewed at least once a year.
Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DSP-06. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.
Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Annual review sign-off by owners · Document repository
- Sample of personal and sensitive data sets traced to a named owner · Document repository
- Escalation records where ownership was unclear · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Register of data owners and stewards per data set · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Role descriptions for data owner and steward · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Owners named as departments rather than individuals
- Owners left in place after people leave
- Steward role undefined
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
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