Controls · The control owner · Element

The owner

The named person accountable for the control working.

The part

What it is

Accountability should sit with someone who can actually influence whether it operates, which is usually in the business rather than in compliance.

One owner per control. Shared ownership of a control is unowned in practice.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.