Law and governanceChapter 18

Governing security

Senior management, CISO, DPO, security policy, EBIOS RM risk analysis, ISO 27001, budget, KPIs, staff awareness and cyber insurance: steering security.

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Presented byBelinda
10 min readUpdated on 2 October 2026

What you will learn

  • Understand what NIS2, DORA and the GDPR expect from senior management
  • Tell the CISO and DPO roles apart, and place them at the right level
  • Build a security policy from a risk analysis (EBIOS Risk Manager, ISO/IEC 27005)
  • Know what ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ANSSI’s hygiene guide and NIST CSF 2.0 bring
  • Choose a budget and indicators that are useful to the executive committee
  • Organise staff awareness and prepare for cyber insurance

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