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Reader questions and safeguards

Operational resilience starts from services, not systems. This checklist sets out the evidence a firm or programme assembles before a supervisor's or partner's review: important services, impact tolerances, mapped dependencies, third-party concentration and tested scenarios, without exposing security details.

01Workspace

The workspace for reader questions and safeguards.

Programme board

Bank B services · Reader questions · Cycle 2 of 4 · Example interface, not a record

  • Workstreams active
    6Active
  • Milestones due this quarter
    7Watch
  • Decisions pending with owners
    3Watch
  • Open risks
    11
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Workstreams

by stage

Scoping02
Scenario testing programmeWS-160 · owner: Supervisor
Cyber recovery capabilityWS-988 · owner: Supervisor
In delivery02
Self-assessmentMilestone M3 · slipping
Service mappingMilestone M5 · on plan
Review01
Impact tolerance settingIndependent reviewer named
Closed01
Third-party exit plansClosure note on record

Gates

  1. Requestowner named
  2. Scoping noteboundary
  3. Qualifiedinputs
  4. BuildFoundry
  5. Testcontrolled
  6. Publishwith limits
  7. Decisionauthority
Programme board.Illustrative interface; not live data.

Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience · Programme board. Programme board: example names and illustrative values, not a record.

02Checklist

Seven questions.

  1. 01

    Purpose

    What problem does the programme address, and for whom?

  2. 02

    Evidence

    What hazard, exposure and vulnerability evidence supports it, with what uncertainty?

  3. 03

    Ownership

    Who owns the programme and answers for it?

  4. 04

    Governance

    How are decisions taken, recorded and challenged?

  5. 05

    Data

    Which data is used, on what terms, and how is it protected?

  6. 06

    Risks

    What could go wrong, and how is it managed?

  7. 07

    Monitoring

    How will results be measured and reported?

03Mapping an important business

Mapping an important business service.

  • Service definition: the outcome customers or markets depend on.
  • Impact tolerance: maximum tolerable disruption, in time or data loss.
  • Resources: people, processes, technology, facilities and information supporting it.
  • Third parties: including fourth parties the provider relies on.
  • Locations: data centres and offices, with hazard exposure.
04Process

How the process runs.

Process explorer · Process

Reader questions and safeguards: Policy question to decision

9 steps5 stages1 gate

Process

Reader questions and safeguards: Policy question to decision

A priority becomes a question, evidence, a decision case and a limited publication; the competent authority decides, never the programme.

  1. 01 Question

    1. 01A priority becomes a questionStep · Universe; national counterpartsA priority becomes a researchable question with stated criteria. National counterparts own the agenda, data and decisions.
    2. 03Scientific and stakeholder challengeStep · the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI); the Global Risks Forum (GRF)Scientific and affected-stakeholder challenge informs mission selection and methods.
  2. 02 Evidence and options

    1. 04Assemble the evidenceStep · GCRIMethods, labelled data and uncertainty are assembled. Every finding carries one of nine evidence labels.
    2. 06Decision case with optionsRecord · The decision owner named in the caseA decision case binds owner, alternatives, evidence and deadline. It needs sensitivity and robustness.
  3. 03 Review and publication

    1. 07G6 · Publication authorisedGate · The Global Risks ForumGRF authorises publication of results that have passed scientific and editorial review. It cannot publish personal data.
    2. 08Publish with method, uncertainty and limitsRecord · ReportsFindings are published with their method, uncertainty and limits. An edition is published after review, not to a calendar.
  4. 04 Outside the programme

    1. 02Competent authority decidesDecision · The competent authorityThe authority or institution decides under its own rules. The authority decides; the programme informs.
    2. 05Action and implementation stay with the ownersActor · The relevant government, operator or licensed institutionDecisions and execution stay with the relevant government, operator or licensed institution. The programme records one only if shared.
  5. 05 Learning

    1. 09Corrections and lessons feed the next agendaStep · UniverseCorrections and lessons feed the next annual agenda. The findings of one year set the mandate of the next.

The Nexus cycle · Decision rights · The programme yearDesigned programme process, not a record of operation. No cycle has run and every programme is at service level R0. A gate is a programme decision, never a public-authority approval, certification or deployment authorisation.

05Testing

Threat-led testing.

Threat-led penetration testing under DORA follows the TIBER-EU approach for designated entities. Results are confidential; sector research studies methods and lessons, not results. Incident response evidence at GCRI incident response and recovery.

06Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

07Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the checklist a standard?
No. It is a working aid. Institutions apply their own standards and rules.
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