What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on 07 Web content filtering (Excellent)?

Approved web content type list, such as allowed file types and categories, signed off by the security owner; Web proxy policy showing allowed content types and category blocks for inbound and outbound traffic; Malware inspection settings on the web gateway, including TLS inspection scope; Proxy logs of blocked downloads and category violations.

What is the most common gap auditors find on 07?

Web filtering applies on the office network but not to remote users off VPN

ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents · Preventing Malware Delivery and Execution

`07` Web content filtering (Excellent)

Filter incoming and outgoing web traffic. Allow only approved types of web content. Inspect incoming web content for malware.

Source: ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents, 07. 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 ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

easy

to go live

Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

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

Malware inspection settings on the web gateway, including TLS inspection scope · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
Proxy logs of blocked downloads and category violations · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Approved web content type list, such as allowed file types and categories, signed off by the security owner · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Web proxy policy showing allowed content types and category blocks for inbound and outbound traffic · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Automate the pull from your Endpoint management (MDM / EDR). Device compliance report from the MDM (encryption, EDR agent, OS version) on a daily pull.

Common gaps auditors find

Web filtering applies on the office network but not to remote users off VPN
HTTPS traffic not inspected, so most malicious downloads pass unchecked
Outbound web traffic not filtered, allowing data exfiltration to uncategorised sites

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.

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