This requirement exists to ensure changes are formally authorized by appropriate authorities based on documented risk and impact and to ensure operational services are managed consistently, reliably, and with appropriate control.
Define and document the process for ensure changes are formally authorized by appropriate authorities based on documented risk and impact. Establish accountable owners, inputs and outputs, approval or validation points, operating criteria, schedules or thresholds where applicable, exception handling, monitoring, reporting, review, and evidence requirements. Integrate the process with change, incident, risk, asset, security, and service-management processes where relevant.
| FRAMEWORK CODE | FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS | FAMILY / CATEGORY | VERSION | ACTION |
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| COBIT2019 | COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.3 – Build, Acquire and Implement (BAI) > BAI06 – Managed IT Changes > BAI06.01 – Evaluate, prioritize and authorize change requests. 4.3 – Build, Acquire and Implement (BAI) > BAI06 – Managed IT Changes > BAI06.02 – Manage emergency changes. |
COBIT
Governance Framework
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| DORA | Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 9(4)(e) – ICT change management: recording, testing, assessing, approving, implementing and verifying changes |
EU
Regulation
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| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The General Data Protection Regulation is a bindin... Clause: Article 25(1) – Data protection by design and by default; Article 32(1)(d) – Testing, assessing and evaluating security measures |
EU
Regulation
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| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA is a U.S. federal law supported by implement... Clause: § 164.308(a)(3) Standard: Evaluation |
US
Law
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| IRDAI | IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §2.9-3.1 – Change Governance; §2.9-3.4 – Release Management |
India
Guideline
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| ISO22301 | ISO/IEC 22301 ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a Business Co... Clause: 6.3 – Planning changes to the business continuity management system; 8.1 – Operational planning and control |
ISO
Standard
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| ISO27002 | ISO/IEC 27002 ISO/IEC 27002 is a guidance standard containing a... Clause: 8.32 – Change management |
ISO
Standard
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| NIS2 | NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(e) – Security in network and information systems acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure |
EU
Directive
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| NIST-CSF | NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: ID.RA – Risk Assessment | ID.RA-07 – Changes and exceptions are managed, assessed for risk impact, recorded, and tracked |
NIST
Framework
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| NIST80053 | NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.5 – CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; CM-3 – CONFIGURATION CHANGE CONTROL, CM-4 – IMPACT ANALYSES |
NIST
Control Catalog
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| PCI-DSS | PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 1.2.2 – All changes to network connections and to; 6.5.1 – Changes to all system components in the; 6.5.2 – Upon completion of a significant change, all |
PCI
Standard
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| RBI-CSF | RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 7) Patch/Vulnerability & Change Management – 7.3 Robust configuration/change management with integrity of changes |
India
Regulation
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| SEBI-CSCRF | SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 3.4 PR.IP: Information Protection Processes and Procedures |
India
Regulation
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| SOC2 | SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC8.1 – Change Management – The entity authorizes, designs, develops or acquires, configures, documents, tests, approves, and implements changes to infrastructure, data, software, and procedures to meet its objectives. |
AICPA
Audit Framework
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