CPS 234 para 17 Keep capability current as threats and assets change
The entity actively keeps its security capability up to date as vulnerabilities and threats shift, including shifts caused by changes to its own information assets or to its business environment.
Source: APRA CPS 234, CPS 234 para 17. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open APRA CPS 234 in the compliance library.
Applies to APRA-regulated entities.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Change management records showing security review of significant system or business changes · Ticketing / ITSM
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Threat intelligence subscriptions and records of how intelligence changed controls or priorities · Document repository
- Periodic threat and vulnerability assessment refreshed after major change · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Capability roadmap revisions triggered by new threats, acquisitions or new channels · Document repository
- Post-incident and lessons-learned actions feeding back into capability · Document repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Capability reviewed on a fixed calendar only, not when the environment changes
- New products, cloud migrations or acquisitions go live without a security capability review
- Threat intelligence received but no evidence it changes anything
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 234 para 16 Assess the security capability of related and third parties · CPS 234 para 18 Maintain an information security policy framework