← SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria in plain English

CC1.3 CC1

Control Environment / CC1.3

Structures, reporting lines and authority set deliberately

Think of it likeDeciding who is in charge of what before the emergency, not during it.

In plain English

Management establishes who reports to whom and who is allowed to decide what, so responsibility for security has an owner rather than being everyone's job and therefore nobody's.

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