Cyber risk management

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• maintain a clear understanding of the cyber and information security risks across the whole organisation
• develop and implement risk assessment processes
• oversee the assessment of the organisation's partners and supply chain for potential threats or vulnerabilities
• building a culture where teams have awareness of, and take responsibility for, risks and mitigating them
• advising programme owners and people running IT services about risks in a way that enables them to act on that advice
• communicating with senior leaders in a way that enables them to make decisions about accepting or mitigating risk

2. Working

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• maintain a clear understanding of the cyber and information security risks across the whole organisation
• develop and implement risk assessment processes
• oversee the assessment of the organisation's partners and supply chain for potential threats or vulnerabilities
• building a culture where teams have awareness of, and take responsibility for, risks and mitigating them
• advising programme owners and people running IT services about risks in a way that enables them to act on that advice
• communicating with senior leaders in a way that enables them to make decisions about accepting or mitigating risk

3. Practitioner

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• maintain a clear understanding of the cyber and information security risks across the whole organisation
• develop and implement risk assessment processes
• oversee the assessment of the organisation's partners and supply chain for potential threats or vulnerabilities
• building a culture where teams have awareness of, and take responsibility for, risks and mitigating them
• advising programme owners and people running IT services about risks in a way that enables them to act on that advice
• communicating with senior leaders in a way that enables them to make decisions about accepting or mitigating risk

4. Expert

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• maintain a clear understanding of the cyber and information security risks across the whole organisation
• develop and implement risk assessment processes
• oversee the assessment of the organisation's partners and supply chain for potential threats or vulnerabilities
• building a culture where teams have awareness of, and take responsibility for, risks and mitigating them
• advising programme owners and people running IT services about risks in a way that enables them to act on that advice
• communicating with senior leaders in a way that enables them to make decisions about accepting or mitigating risk

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• implement ICT risk management (close match)
• identify ICT security risks (narrow match)
• assess supplier risks (narrow match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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