Senior Information Risk Owner definition

Senior Information Risk Owner. “SIRO” means the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) responsible on behalf of the DfE Accounting Officer for overseeing the management of information risk across the organisation. This includes its executive agencies, arms length bodies (ALBs), non- departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and devolved information held by third parties.

Senior Information Risk Owner means the nominated person, who is an executive or senior manager on the board of the Provider, whose role is to take ownership of the organisation’s information risk policy, act as champion for information risk on the board of the Provider and provide written advice to the accounting officer on the content of the organisation’s statement of internal control in regard to information risk;

Senior Information Risk Owner or “SIRO” means the person identified as such for each Party in Annex 2 to this Schedule;

Examples of Senior Information Risk Owner in a sentence

• The responsibilities of the Senior Information Risk Owner are to lead and champion a culture of good information management, Own the overall information risk policy and procedures and advise the Council’s senior management on information risk.

• Refer to Appendix 1 for information on the role of the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO), Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Information Asset Owners (IAO).

• The IAO is required to review the retention period and any requirement to change must be submitted to the Senior Information Risk Owner.

• Each Tier Two is signed by the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) and/or Caldicott Guardian (CG), alternatively the Chief Executive or equivalent if there is no SIRO/CG, for each of the partner organisations.

• The Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) is the officer responsible across the whole Council for Information Governance, takes ownership of the Council’s Information Risk Policy, act acts as an advocate for good practice for reducing information risk and provide written advice on internal controls in regard to information risk.

• Information Governance is overseen by the Corporate Information Assurance and Risk Group (CIARG) chaired by the City Solicitor who is the Senior Information Risk Owner for the Council (SIRO).

• Their role is to understand and address risks to the information assets they ‘own’ and to provide assurance to the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) on the security and use of those assets.

• The CCG’s Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) is the Chief Finance Officer and also the Chair of the Information Governance Forum.

• Implementation of, and compliance with this policy is delegated to the Senior Information Risk Owner, Caldicott Guardian, Data Protection Officer, and members of the Information Governance Committee.

• This Officer executes the role by reporting the outcome of statutory process to the Headteacher who acts as the organisation’s Senior Information Risk Owner.

More Definitions of Senior Information Risk Owner

Senior Information Risk Owner means the individual with responsibility for the overall information risk policy of the Authority in accordance with the Security Policy Framework as published by the Cabinet Office;

Senior Information Risk Owner the Provider’s nominated person, being an executive or