What is the most common gap auditors find on GV.RR-01?

Accountability assigned to CISO only

`GV.RR-01` Organizational leadership is responsible and accountable for cybersecurity risk and fosters a culture that is…

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on GV.RR-01 Organizational leadership is responsible and accountable for cybersecurity risk and fosters a culture that is…?

Board cyber accountability charter; Executive cyber scorecard with named owners; Leadership performance objectives tied to cyber outcomes; Minutes showing leadership challenge of cyber decisions; Public statement of leadership accountability.

Organizational leadership is responsible and accountable for cybersecurity risk and fosters a culture that is risk-aware, ethical, and continually improving

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, GV.RR-01. 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 NIST CSF 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Policy repository / GRC workspace

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

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

Minutes showing leadership challenge of cyber decisions · Policy repository / GRC workspace

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Board cyber accountability charter · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Executive cyber scorecard with named owners · Document repository
Leadership performance objectives tied to cyber outcomes · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Public statement of leadership accountability · Document repository

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Accountability assigned to CISO only
Board lacks cyber literacy training
Performance objectives lack measurable cyber criteria
No leadership challenge captured in minutes

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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