A group that advises and the supports assessment, prioritization, authorization and scheduling of change requests. The CAB composition can vary from organization to organization but it may include Engineers, IT Security managers, Major Incident managers, Operations managers, Service Desk analysts, Customer Service managers, among other subject matter experts (SMEs.)
An ECAB is a sub-set of the Change Advisory Board (CAB). ECAB members make decisions about high impact Emergency Changes which include verifying whether a Change is actually an emergency.

