Operationalize security, compliance and resilience objectives by integrating cybersecurity and data privacy requirements into project, program and resource management practices.
Organizations ensure security-related initiatives have defined ownership, funding, staffing, dependencies, schedules and project/program management support necessary for successful execution.
Security programs fail not only because of technical gaps but because security initiatives lack defined ownership, adequate funding, assigned staff and project management discipline. The PRM domain exists to operationalize security, compliance and resilience objectives through the same project and resource management rigor applied to other organizational programs.
The SCF's intent for PRM is specific: security-related initiatives need ownership, funding, staffing, dependencies, schedules and PM support. That list identifies the failure modes of most security programs. A security initiative without assigned ownership produces accountability diffusion. One without funding produces perpetual "we'll get to it" deferrals. One without schedule and dependency tracking produces integration failures when security requirements collide with project deadlines.
PRM is distinct from Governance (GOV) because governance establishes the decision structures and accountability mechanisms, while PRM governs execution. You can have excellent governance decisions that never get implemented because the execution infrastructure doesn't support them. Both domains are required.
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