CRGA™ Framework

Definition

Cyber Risk Governance & Accountability (CRGA™) is the board-level system for governing cyber risk through decision rights, escalation discipline, and defensible evidence.

Scope

CRGA™ applies to boards of directors, executive leadership, and designated risk owners who are responsible for overseeing cyber risk as an enterprise governance matter.

The framework focuses on how cyber risk decisions are made, escalated, documented, and reviewed-not on how security technologies are implemented or operated.

CRGA™ is applicable across industries and organization sizes and is designed to complement existing regulatory, legal, and insurance guidance without replacing them.

What CRGA™ Is Not

CRGA™ is not a cybersecurity certification, rating, or maturity score.

It is not a compliance checklist and it does not replace legal or regulatory obligations.

It is not a technology product, managed service, or operational security program.

CRGA™ does not prescribe specific vendors, controls, or technical architectures. Those decisions remain the responsibility of management and its advisors.

Governance Principle

Cyber risk governance is inseparable from fiduciary responsibility.

Boards and executives are accountable not for preventing every cyber incident, but for demonstrating that cyber risk is governed with the same discipline, oversight, and evidentiary rigor as financial, legal, and operational risk.

CRGA™ establishes a shared governance language so that decision-making, escalation, and accountability can be demonstrated clearly to regulators, insurers, investors, and other stakeholders.