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Emergency Changes

The organization shall manage emergency changes required to address urgent security incidents, critical outages, or immediate business needs. Emergency change processes shall include expedited approval procedures, risk assessment requirements, and post-implementation review requirements.

Requirement ID
OPS-001-R008
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Requirement Details & Guidance

OPS-001-R008 · OPS-001
Why This Requirement Exists

This requirement exists to manage urgent changes through expedited but controlled risk assessment, approval, implementation, and review and to ensure operational services are managed consistently, reliably, and with appropriate control.

Implementation Guidance

Define and document the process for manage urgent changes through expedited but controlled risk assessment, approval, implementation, and review. Establish accountable owners, inputs and outputs, approval or validation points, operating criteria, schedules or thresholds where applicable, exception handling, monitoring, reporting, review, and evidence requirements. Integrate the process with change, incident, risk, asset, security, and service-management processes where relevant.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

OPS-001-R008 · Field Guidance

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        OPS-001 · Recommended Approach

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          Cross-Mapped Regulatory Frameworks

          Harmonized Control Mappings
          FRAMEWORK CODE FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS FAMILY / CATEGORY VERSION ACTION
          IRDAI IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §2.9-3.1 – Change Governance; §1.9-IV – Emergency exceptions
          India
          Guideline
          vLatest View →
          RBI-CSF RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 7) Patch/Vulnerability & Change Management – 7.3 Robust configuration/change management with integrity of changes
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 3.4 PR.IP: Information Protection Processes and Procedures
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 9(4)(e) – ICT change management: recording, testing, assessing, approving, implementing and verifying changes
          EU
          Regulation
          vCurrent View →
          NIS2 NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(e) – Security in network and information systems acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure
          EU
          Directive
          vCurrent View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 1.2.2 – All changes to network connections and to; 6.5.1 – Changes to all system components in the; 6.5.2 – Upon completion of a significant change, all
          PCI
          Standard
          v4 View →
          COBIT2019 COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.3 – Build, Acquire and Implement (BAI) > BAI06 – Managed IT Changes > BAI06.02 – Manage emergency changes.
          COBIT
          Governance Framework
          v2019 View →
          ISO22301 ISO/IEC 22301 ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a Business Co... Clause: 6.3 – Planning changes to the business continuity management system; 8.1 – Operational planning and control
          ISO
          Standard
          v2019 View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: ID.RA – Risk Assessment | ID.RA-07 – Changes and exceptions are managed, assessed for risk impact, recorded, and tracked
          NIST
          Framework
          v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.5 – CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; CM-3 – CONFIGURATION CHANGE CONTROL, CM-4 – IMPACT ANALYSES
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          vRev. 5 View →
          GDPR General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The General Data Protection Regulation is a bindin... Clause: Article 25(1) – Data protection by design and by default; Article 32(1)(d) – Testing, assessing and evaluating security measures
          EU
          Regulation
          vCurrent View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC8.1 – Change Management – The entity authorizes, designs, develops or acquires, configures, documents, tests, approves, and implements changes to infrastructure, data, software, and procedures to meet its objectives.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
          vLatest View →

          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          IT Operations & Service Management (OPS)
          Purpose:
          To ensure the availability, performance, and resilience of IT services.
          Scope:
          Enterprise

          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          Change & Release Management (OPS-001)
          Summary:
          Establishes change and release management including request management, risk assessment, approval, release planning, deployment, post-implementation review, emergency changes, reporting, and continuous improvement.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain controlled processes for requesting, assessing, approving, testing, implementing, and reviewing technology changes and releases.