News Summary

• In banking and utilities, regulators define certain systems as essential.
• A payment platform in a clearing bank or a SCADA network in a power distributor, for example, carries the highest governance obligations.
• Despite this, many regulated organizations still manage their policy environments as operational tasks.
• Every firewall rule, segmentation policy, and access decision directly affects operational risk, and when the policy environment fails, the critical services it governs fail with it.
• The new standard requires continuous intentional access to security policies and controls.