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What you need to do

Security practitioners are to apply the Protective Security Requirements (PSR) with the understanding it provides pathways for successfully protecting people, information and assets.

As a security practitioner, your responsibilities include:

  • developing a strong and sustainable security culture within your agency
  • developing agency-specific policy and procedures that comply with the mandatory requirements of the PSR
  • reviewing your agency’s protective security management policy and procedures regularly as part of your agency’s approach to risk management and business planning
  • reporting to senior management on compliance against the mandatory requirements and agreed risk mitigation plans
  • determining specific roles and responsibilities for security across your agency
  • providing guidance to your agency head on security matters
  • managing and reporting security incidents
  • promoting and implementing protective security policy
  • providing oversight of agency protective security

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Contact infomation

If you want to know more about the PSR you can contact:

psr@protectivesecurity.govt.nz +64 4 472 6170
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS
THE NEW ZEALAND INFORMATION SECURITY MANUAL (NZISM)