SAT-03.7: Continuing Professional Education (CPE) - Cybersecurity & Data Protection Personnel

There is no evidence of a capability to ensure cybersecurity and data protection personnel receive Continuing Professional Education (CPE) training to maintain currency and proficiency with industry-recognized secure practices that are pertinent to their assigned roles and responsibilities.

C|P-CMM1 is N/A, since a structured process is required to ensure cybersecurity and data protection personnel receive Continuing Professional Education (CPE) training to maintain currency and proficiency with industry-recognized secure practices that are pertinent to their assigned roles and responsibilities.

C|P-CMM2 is N/A, since a well-defined process is required to ensure cybersecurity and data protection personnel receive Continuing Professional Education (CPE) training to maintain currency and proficiency with industry-recognized secure practices that are pertinent to their assigned roles and responsibilities.

Security Awareness & Training (SAT) efforts are standardized across the organization and centrally managed, where technically feasible, to ensure consistency. CMM Level 3 control maturity would reasonably expect all, or at least most, the following criteria to exist: o Provides governance oversight for the implementation of applicable statutory, regulatory and contractual cybersecurity and data protection controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and safety of the organization's applications, systems, services and data with regards to security awareness and training. o Defines minimum cybersecurity training (including certifications) for personnel, based on their specific roles. o Creates/governs security and awareness training to meet specific statutory, regulatory and/ or contractual compliance obligations. o Identifies and implements industry-recognized HR practices related to security workforce development and awareness to help ensure secure practices are implemented in personnel management operations. o Documents, retains and monitors individual training activities, including basic security awareness training, ongoing awareness training and specific-system training. o Ensures that every user accessing a system processing, storing or transmitting sensitive/regulated data is formally trained in data handling requirements. o Ensures all employees and contractors receive awareness education and training that is relevant for their job function, including social engineering-related threats.

• A Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) function, or similar function:
• A steering committee is formally established to provide executive oversight of the cybersecurity and data protection program, including security awareness and training.
• Security awareness and training methods are role-based (e.g., handling sensitive/regulated data).
• The Human Resources (HR) department:
• Cybersecurity and/ or data protection personnel receive necessary Continuing Professional Education (CPE) training to maintain currency and proficiency with industry-recognized secure practices pertinent to their assigned roles and responsibilities.

See C|P-CMM3. There are no defined C|P-CMM4 criteria, since it is reasonable to assume a quantitatively-controlled process is not necessary to ensure cybersecurity and data protection personnel receive Continuing Professional Education (CPE) training to maintain currency and proficiency with industry-recognized secure practices that are pertinent to their assigned roles and responsibilities.

See C|P-CMM4. There are no defined C|P-CMM5 criteria, since it is reasonable to assume a continuously-improving process is not necessary to ensure cybersecurity and data protection personnel receive Continuing Professional Education (CPE) training to maintain currency and proficiency with industry-recognized secure practices that are pertinent to their assigned roles and responsibilities.