Security Exception Request Form and Process
Handle requests to bypass a control responsibly.
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Design a security exception process. Controls most often bypassed: [COMMON_EXCEPTIONS]. Teams and their pressure points: [TEAMS]. Approvers available: [APPROVERS]. Provide a form with fields: requester, control, business reason, risk, compensating controls, duration (with a maximum), approver, and review date. Write approval criteria, a risk rating guide, an escalation path for high-risk exceptions, and a register template. Add rules that every exception expires, that exceptions are reviewed monthly, and that repeated exceptions trigger a review of the control itself. Include three worked examples at different risk levels with the decision and reasoning. Close with metrics for the number and age of exceptions. Add a section on documenting compensating controls with three examples, such as extra monitoring when a legacy system cannot support a control. Provide a simple scoring grid that converts likelihood and impact into low, medium or high, and a dashboard idea showing exceptions by age and by owner for the monthly review. Keep everything defensive: help me protect, detect and recover, and decline anything that would help someone break into systems I do not own.
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