- A "must have" resource to assign Responsible, Accountable, Supporting, Consulted, and Informed roles accross all 1,400+ SCF controls.
- Aligns with NIST NICE Framework (NIST SP 800-181 Rev 1).
- Editable Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to allow for customization and streamline implementation.
Don't Write It From Scratch.
When an auditor or executive asks who is accountable for each of your security controls, can you point to a clear, documented answer, or does ownership blur the moment you look closely? Unassigned controls do not remove risk; they quietly push it up to leadership without anyone deciding to accept it. Building a complete responsibility matrix from scratch, across hundreds of controls, is tedious and easy to leave half-done. The SCF RASCI Matrix gives you a running start: an editable Microsoft Excel matrix that maps Responsible, Accountable, Supporting, Consulted, and Informed roles across all 1,400+ SCF controls, using the NIST NICE Workforce Framework for role definitions. It gets you roughly 80 to 90 percent of the way there, then you map the roles to the actual people in your organization.
ComplianceForge is a Licensed Content Provider (LCP) for the Secure Controls Framework (SCF) and created a Responsible, Accountable, Supporting, Consulted and Informed (RASCI) matrix that addresses all 1,400+ SCF controls. This RASCI format leverages the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework as the foundation for the work roles and work role IDs.
Principle #5 of the SCF's Security, Compliance & Resilience Management System (SCRMS) is focused on assigning stakeholder accountability. That is arguably one of the most difficult principles to put into practice, due to the incomplete picture of stakeholders and a lack of a viable RASCI to make those assignments. This SCF-based RASCI makes Principle #5 a straightforward exercise by simply mapping existing people in your organization to those identified roles in the RASCI.
The Leadership Value of a Clearly-Defined RASCI Matrix
If a control has no clear operational owner, the risk does not disappear - it merely escalates. In practice, that means executive leadership may be accepting cybersecurity, data privacy, compliance or resilience risk without a clear understanding of the underlying accountability gap. This is why the most important value of a RASCI is not simply assigning tasks, but clarifying where risk is accepted.
A RASCI helps leadership think through their organization structure to identify where accountability should reside and where "control ownership" needs to be delegated and formally accepted. This creates a more transparent model for due care, due diligence and enterprise risk governance to address responsible parties for control governance and execution:
ComplianceForge's RASCI matrix provides a practical, role-based accountability model for assigning ownership across all 1,400+ SCF cybersecurity, data privacy, compliance and resilience controls. Built on the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework and expanded with additional roles commonly found in Fortune 1000 organizations, this RASCI is designed to help organizations eliminate ambiguity over “who owns what” in a cybersecurity program.
Cybersecurity programs often fail, not because controls are unknown, but because ownership is unclear. When no specific role is assigned, accountability naturally escalates to organizational leadership. This RASCI helps prevent that by creating a defensible starting point for assigning responsibility, accountability, support, consultation and awareness across the enterprise.
No Software To Install
The SCF RASCI Matrix is a one-time purchase of an editable Microsoft Excel-based template. There is no software to install, no agent to deploy, no account to provision, and no cloud environment to configure. If your organization can open and edit Microsoft Excel files (or compatible tools like OpenOffice and Google Sheets), you can use the SCF RASCI Matrix.
Microsoft Excel
Delivered as a fully editable .xlsx file. Compatible with Excel 2016 and newer, Microsoft 365, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Google Sheets.
Email Delivery
Documentation is delivered via email download link within 1-2 business days of purchase. There is no installer, no license server, and no activation step.
One-Time Purchase
A single-entity license is included with purchase. There is no recurring subscription requirement, although an optional update subscription is available to stay current as frameworks evolve.
This deployment model is intentional. Cybersecurity documentation benefits from being in the organization's own hands, inside the organization's own version control and document management systems, rather than locked inside a vendor's SaaS tool. Once delivered, the SCF RASCI Matrix belongs to the buyer.
What Problems Does The SCF RASCI Solve?
The SCF-Based RASCI Matrix is a comprehensive role assignment model mapped to the SCF. It is intended to help organizations operationalize cybersecurity governance by clearly identifying who should be involved in the implementation, operation, oversight and assurance of each control. This product provides a structured starting point for:
Role-Based Control Ownership
Assigns Responsible, Accountable, Supporting, Consulted and Informed (RASCI) roles across SCF controls.
Executive Accountability Alignment
Identifies where control accountability resides with senior leadership, including the Board of Directors, CEO, CIO, CISO, CTO, CRO, CFO, CHRO, CAE and Line of Business executives.
NIST NICE Framework Alignment
Builds on top of the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework by expanding it with additional organizational leadership and business roles expected in mature enterprise environments.
SCF-Wide Control Coverage
Covers the full SCF control catalog, including 1,400+ controls across 34 domains.
Practical Implementation Support
Provides a defensible baseline that organizations can tailor to their structure, size, industry, risk profile and operating model.
In many organizations, cybersecurity work is fragmented across IT, security, legal, compliance, privacy, procurement, HR, finance, internal audit and the business. Without a clear role assignment model, critical activities are often assumed to be "owned by security" when they actually require broader enterprise participation. That creates several common problems:
- Ownership is unclear.
- Controls are implemented inconsistently.
- Business roles are not engaged early enough.
- Audit findings lack clear remediation owners.
- Cybersecurity becomes over-centralized in the CISO function.
- Executives unknowingly accept risks because no more granular owner is assigned.
The ComplianceForge SCF-Based RASCI helps address these issues by providing a structured model for determining who is responsible, who is accountable, who supports execution, who must be consulted and who must be kept informed.
How Does The SCF RASCI Solve These Problems?
The SCF-Based RASCI Matrix is a comprehensive role assignment model mapped to the SCF. It helps organizations operationalize cybersecurity governance by clearly identifying who should be involved in the implementation, operation, oversight and assurance of each control. This product provides a structured starting point for:
Establishes Clear Control Ownership
One of the most difficult aspects of cybersecurity program management is determining who owns specific controls. This RASCI gives organizations a comprehensive starting point for assigning ownership across the SCF control catalog, reducing confusion and accelerating implementation.
Supports Defensible Governance
A well-defined RASCI helps demonstrate that the organization has considered accountability, oversight and execution responsibilities. This is valuable for audits, assessments, regulatory scrutiny, board reporting and due care documentation.
Reduces CISO Overload
Without a defined responsibility model, the CISO often becomes the assumed owner for nearly every cybersecurity obligation. This RASCI helps distribute accountability to the appropriate business, technology, risk, compliance, legal, HR, procurement and executive roles.
Improves Audit and Assessment Readiness
Auditors and assessors often ask who owns a control, who performs the activity and who is accountable for remediation. This RASCI provides a structured reference that can be tailored and maintained as part of the organization’s governance evidence.
Aligns Security With Business Operations
Cybersecurity controls frequently depend on business processes, contracts, HR actions, procurement decisions, financial approvals, executive risk decisions and operational participation. The RASCI makes those dependencies visible.
Accelerates SCF Implementation
For organizations adopting the SCF, this product eliminates the need to build a control ownership model from scratch (e.g., implementing SCRMS Principle 5). It provides an SCF-aligned foundation that can be quickly tailored to the organization.
What Is Included?
The SCF RASCI Matrix is delivered as a single, editable Microsoft Excel workbook that maps Responsible, Accountable, Supporting, Consulted and Informed (RASCI) assignments to the controls in the Secure Controls Framework (SCF). It provides a defensible, role-based starting point that you can tailor to your organization's structure.
1,400+ SCF Controls
RASCI assignments mapped across all 1,400+ controls in the Secure Controls Framework.
34 SCF Domains
Coverage spanning the full breadth of the SCF's 34 cybersecurity, data privacy, compliance and resilience domains.
R / A / S / C / I Assignments
Responsible, Accountable, Supporting, Consulted and Informed designations defined for each control.
NIST NICE + Enterprise Roles
Work roles based on the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, expanded with leadership and business roles common to Fortune 1000 organizations.
Cost Savings Estimate
When you look at the cost of either (1) hiring an external consultant to build a control-ownership model for you or (2) tasking your internal staff to create one from a blank spreadsheet, purchasing the SCF RASCI Matrix from ComplianceForge is the logical option. Building a defensible RASCI that spans 1,400+ SCF controls and the full range of enterprise roles is time-consuming work. This product gives you that baseline immediately, so your team can focus on tailoring role assignments rather than constructing the model from scratch.
Starting From Scratch
Developing a control-ownership model internally means researching roles, interpreting each control, and building and maintaining a 1,400+ control matrix by hand - often hundreds of staff hours diverted from operational security work.
Starting From The SCF RASCI
You begin with a complete, SCF-aligned RASCI and simply map your existing people to the defined roles — collapsing weeks of effort into a focused tailoring exercise.
Product Examples
The SCF RASCI is based on the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, but is tailored for private industry with roles commonly found in Fortune 1000 enterprises that are missing from the NIST framework. It is provided as a generic RASCI perspective that is meant to serve as a starting point for your organization to customize for its specific role structure and naming.
Below is a PDF example of ComplianceForge's SCF-based RASCI matrix, so you can see the quality and structure of what you will receive.
Below is a PDF example containing an example / sneak peak into what you would receive upon purchasing the SCF RASCI Matrix.
How Much Customization Remains?
Given the difficult nature of building a control-ownership model that fits every organization, ComplianceForge aims for approximately a "90% solution" because it is impossible to write a 100% cookie-cutter RASCI that can be equally applied across every organization. ComplianceForge did the heavy lifting, and the remaining work is to fine-tune the role assignments with the specific information that only your organization knows.
In practice, customization is essentially mapping the defined roles to the real people and teams in your organization. Typical customization tasks include renaming roles to match your titles and reporting lines, consolidating roles where one person wears many hats, distributing responsibilities across teams in larger enterprises, and adjusting assignments to reflect your operating model and risk tolerance.
Professional Services
ComplianceForge offers optional professional services to customize purchased documentation. Professional services are not required to customize ComplianceForge documentation. However, some clients want our subject matter expertise to help customize their documentation to meet their specific business needs. If you have any questions about our professional services, please contact us at:
We offer the following professional service bundles:
5-Hour Bundle
This includes five (5) hours of professional services, which may be beneficial for companies that need some guidance on getting started with how to tailor their documentation.
10-Hour Bundle
This includes ten (10) hours of professional services, which may be beneficial for companies that need additional guidance on tailoring their documentation to meet their compliance requirements.
20-Hour Bundle
This includes twenty (20) hours of professional services, which may be beneficial for companies that need robust services, beyond just 10 hours, to assist in tailoring their documentation to meet their compliance requirements.
Purchased professional service hours expire 120 days (4 months) from the time of purchase if unused. Hours are intended to supplement, not replace, your own customization work, since only your organization knows the exact details to tailor your documentation. For questions regarding scoping a professional services engagement or configuring a custom package, contact ComplianceForge directly through the Contact Us page.
Built as a Starting Point, Not a One-Size-Fits-All Mandate
No generic RASCI can perfectly reflect every organization's structure. Job titles, reporting lines, control ownership and operating models vary by industry, size, geography and maturity. This SCF RASCI matrix is designed to be a robust starting point that lets you hit the ground running and tailor the assignments based on your unique internal structure, business model, regulatory obligations and risk management practices. For example:
Small / Medium Organizations
In a small or medium-sized organization, one person may fill multiple roles across the RASCI.
Larger Enterprises
In a larger enterprise, responsibilities may be distributed across multiple teams, regions or business units.
The value of the SCF RASCI is that it gives organizations of any size a comprehensive baseline to start from, rather than forcing them to build a control ownership model from a blank spreadsheet.
NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework Alignment
The NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NICE) is unique because it provides a standardized, role-based taxonomy for defining cybersecurity work across an organization. Instead of relying on inconsistent job titles, NICE organizes cybersecurity responsibilities into clear work roles, tasks, knowledge and skill statements. This makes it especially valuable for building defensible role definitions, workforce planning, training paths and accountability models.
As the leading best practice for cybersecurity-related roles and responsibilities, NICE helps organizations align roles and responsibilities to recognized industry terminology. This matters because cybersecurity is rarely owned by one department; it requires coordinated participation across security, IT, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, HR, procurement and business operations. By using NICE as a foundation, organizations can reduce ambiguity, improve workforce planning and create a more consistent basis for assigning control ownership, documenting responsibilities and demonstrating due care.
Designed For Defensible Governance
This RASCI was built for organizations that need a serious, scalable and defensible control ownership model. It is especially useful for organizations implementing or maintaining programs based on the Secure Controls Framework (SCF), NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, NY DFS 500, DORA, NIS2 or other cybersecurity and privacy obligations.
The matrix reflects the reality that cybersecurity is not owned by one department. It is an enterprise risk management function that requires participation from leadership, business operations and technical teams. Where appropriate, the RASCI identifies ownership and involvement across roles such as:
- Board of Directors (BoD)
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Operations Officer (COO)
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)
- Chief Audit Executive (CAE)
- Chief Legal Officer (CLO) / General Counsel / Legal
- Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)
- Procurement / Vendor Management
- Line of Business (LoB) Executives
- System, Application, Data and Asset Owners
- Security Operations and IT Operations
- Compliance, Risk Management and Internal Audit
- Business Continuity / Resilience
- Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) / Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)