RR-A-01Level 1 · Signal
Holds an active policy exception
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An Access signal from IT service management (ITSM, open exception record): this person holds an approved exception to a security policy, such as a legacy app or a disabled control.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- GV.PO-02
- MITRE ATT&CK
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None mapped
The definition, in detail
Definition
It is a standing gap in the controls that cover everyone.
Example
A research scientist holds an 18-month exception that keeps an unpatched lab instrument on the network under her name; the review date passed last quarter.
How it is measured
- Source
- IT service management
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Open exception record
- Risk domain
- Readiness and response
- Provenance
- Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Holds an active policy exception" per person from IT service management and read it beside the other Readiness and response signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "holds an active policy exception" record is evidence of what the person could expose (the access side of the model). It describes reach; it records no action by the person and no attack under way.
Continue exploring
"Holds an active policy exception" (RR-A-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/rr-a-01-holds-an-active-policy-exception
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.