Requirement:
The cybersecurity requirements for protecting and handling data and information must be implemented.
Control Implementation Guidelines:
- Implement all cybersecurity requirements to data and information protection procedures in the organization. The data and information protection procedures must cover at least the following, but not limited to:
- Define data and information ownership
- Classify data and information
- Label data and information in line with the data and information classification mechanism approved by the organization
- Develop an action plan to implement all cybersecurity requirements related to data and information protection
- Implement data protection controls to ensure its protection according to its classification level and impact
- The organization may also develop an action plan to implement cybersecurity requirements related to data and information protection, in order to ensure that the organization complies with all cybersecurity requirements for all internal and external stakeholders and follow up and monitor them periodically to ensure implementation
Expected Deliverables:
- Documents that confirm the implementation of cybersecurity requirements related to information and data protection as documented in the policy
- An action plan to implement cybersecurity requirements for data and information protection
- Evidence showing the implementation of data and information protection controls, including but not limited to:
- Provide a data and information governance matrix that clarifies the ownership of data and information
- Availability of procedures to deal with data according to their classification and impact
- Sample of modern technologies used to protect the data and information (e.g., the existence of advanced technologies necessary to protect, encrypt, and save the organization's data and information from modification and leakage)
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