human resource manager
163515·updated Aug 30, 2026An organizational role — specifically, a manager within the human resources function — who appears in security, privacy, and compliance documents as a named stakeholder responsible for workforce-lifecycle controls that intersect with information security obligations. In that context, the phrase does not denote a specialized security position but rather the ordinary HR management role insofar as it owns people-related security processes: pre-employment screening, onboarding access provisioning, security awareness training, disciplinary procedures, and offboarding/access revocation. Frameworks such as ISO 27001 Annex A.7, which outlines management system standards for workers before, during, and after employment — including recruiting, awareness, training, discipline, and termination — assign specific security obligations to this role, and human resource managers of covered entities face a wide variety of responsibilities requiring significant focus on privacy and security within a company. The phrase is compositional: "human resource manager" is the ordinary professional title, and its meaning in security/compliance documents derives entirely from the security duties that frameworks
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- ISO 27001 - Annex A.7 - Human Resource Security - DataGuard
- HIPAA Compliance for Human Resources - Tironem
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A human resource manager is an organizational role-holder — the person or position responsible for managing workforce lifecycle activities such as hiring, onboarding, training, performance, and offboarding — whom security, privacy, and compliance frameworks enumerate as a named stakeholder with specific duties. In compliance contexts such as HIPAA, human resource managers of covered entities and business associates bear a wide variety of responsibilities that vary greatly from company to company. Frameworks and policy documents cite the role alongside security officers and privacy officers because the workforce lifecycle directly intersects with access provisioning, security awareness training, background screening, sanctions enforcement, and the handling of employee personal data. Consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with information security policies, for example, is carried out in coordination and collaboration with Human Resources, management, and legal divisions.
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- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- An organizational role — specifically, a manager within the human resources function — who appears in security, privacy, and compliance documents as a named stakeholder responsible for workforce-lifecycle controls that intersect with information security obligations. In that context, the phrase does not denote a specialized security position but rather the ordinary HR management role insofar as it owns people-related security processes: pre-employment screening, onboarding access provisioning, security awareness training, disciplinary procedures, and offboarding/access revocation. Frameworks such as ISO 27001 Annex A.7, which outlines management system standards for workers before, during, and after employment — including recruiting, awareness, training, discipline, and termination — assign specific security obligations to this role, and human resource managers of covered entities face a wide variety of responsibilities requiring significant focus on privacy and security within a company. The phrase is compositional: "human resource manager" is the ordinary professional title, and its meaning in security/compliance documents derives entirely from the security duties that frameworksDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column