The cybersecurity backlog is not a security problem
Brief
Cybersecurity teams should be responsible for risk oversight, rather than for executing every corrective action. Assigning security teams the tasks of finding, prioritizing, assigning, implementing, tracking and validating every remediation does not foster accountability. Instead, it results in an organizational repository for unresolved issues.
A more effective model distinguishes roles clearly: security functions as the overseer, while technology and business operations execute remediation. Security should maintain the authoritative risk inventory, determine priorities, establish remediation standards, escalate missed commitments and verify closure.
Owners of the affected infrastructure, cloud environment, application, identity platform or business process are responsible for implementing fixes.