Public governance contract for standards control: ownership, approval paths, separation of duties, conformance release gates, incident policy, and assurance cadence.
Publishes standards, boundaries, and document revisions.
Approves or rejects normative and high-risk changes.
Approves exceptions, risk acceptance, and corrective-action closure.
Approvals: One approver from Approval Authority
Rule: Conformance and governance gates still mandatory.
Approvals: Two approvers (Approval Authority + Risk delegate)
Rule: Author cannot be sole approver. Separation of duties mandatory.
Approvals: Emergency approver + Risk Owner notification
Rule: Post-review required with due date and tracked corrective actions.
| Severity | Initial Response | Postmortem |
|---|---|---|
| SEV-1 | 15 minutes | 48 hours |
| SEV-2 | 30 minutes | 72 hours |
| SEV-3 | 4 hours | 5 business days |
| SEV-4 | 1 business day | Optional |
| Control | Cadence | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Privileged access review | Quarterly | Access review record |
| Key rotation evidence review | Quarterly | Key lifecycle record |
| DR restore and replay test | Semiannual | Restore validation record |
| Independent assurance cycle | Annual | External assessment record |
Governance artifacts are published with cryptographic integrity metadata and verifiable key lifecycle records. Independent parties can confirm artifact-set membership, SHA-256 digest parity, payload-hash parity, and signature validity against published governance public keys.
Primary governance JSON payloads are published here as canonical machine-readable artifacts for independent review.
Versioned governance document register with supersedes chain and revision pointers.
Active exceptions, owners, status, and closure posture for governance controls.
Signed digest manifest for published governance artifacts and set-membership verification.
Published governance signing public keys with activation, retirement, and lifecycle state.
In-scope/out-of-scope governance boundary contract
Periodic control-testing cadence and due-state record
Control-owner charter hash and signatory attestation
Machine-readable attestation contract
Live deterministic standards conformance evidence