- Policy exception: temporary deviation from baseline policy.
- Risk acceptance: risk owner accepts a known risk.
- Compensating controls: alternative measures to reduce risk.
- Business justification
- Impacted assets
- Compensating controls
- Expiry date
- Sign-off matrix
- Exceptions reviewed every 90 days.
- Expired exceptions trigger escalation to risk owner.
flowchart LR
A[Request] --> B[Assess]
B --> C{Approve?}
C -->|Yes| D[Implement Compensating Control]
C -->|No| E[Reject]
D --> F[Review/Expire]
See the exception handling diagram: 22-diagrams/exception-handling.mmd
- Risk management:
09-risk-management.md - Templates:
21-templates/template-exception-request.md