CPS 230 para 49 Register of Material Service Providers
The entity must identify and maintain a register of its material service providers and manage the material risks of using them, material providers and arrangements being those the entity relies on to undertake a critical
3
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Vendor register / contract repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Risk management records per provider · Vendor register / contract repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Register of material service providers and material arrangements · Vendor register / contract repository
- Materiality determinations with supporting rationale · Vendor register / contract repository
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Register limited to outsourcing contracts
- Providers exposing the entity to material operational risk omitted
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetCPS 230 para 48 Required Content of the Service Provider Management Policy · CPS 230 para 50 Mandatory Minimum Classification of Material Service Providers