The Accountability Test

Evaluating compliance alignment

This assessment addresses the critical divide between ultimate liability and operational execution, outlining a structured exercise to expose institutional risk by auditing:

• Clear identification of who holds formal accountability versus who manages the technical platforms, third-party providers, and processes supporting compliance.
• Defining designated authority for handling cyber breaches, coordinating operational response teams, and making time-critical decisions.
• Verifying who is responsible for determining regulator notifications, managing client disclosures, and compiling audit trails after a security event.
• Testing whether key stakeholders across the organisation share a unified understanding of governance roles or if hidden exposure exists through fragmented perceptions