How does Policy governance support the objective “maintains approved security direction with ownership, review dates, and exceptions”?

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Policy governance is a cybersecurity control or practice. It supports this objective: maintains approved security direction with ownership, review dates, and exceptions. The implementation should still be validated against the organization's risk, architecture, legal obligations and operating constraints, then adapted rather than copied unchanged between environments.

CIS Critical Security Controls v8: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8