What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on 15 User education (Limited)?

Annual security education plan naming the current threat topics covered, the audience and the owner of the programme; Security awareness training content covering current threats and the consequences of poor practice; Training completion records and phishing simulation results by business unit; Suspicious email and activity reporting channel with a sample of user reports and responses.

What is the most common gap auditors find on 15?

Training delivered once at induction and never refreshed

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

`15` User education (Limited)

User education regarding applicable threats, reporting of suspicious emails, websites and activity, and the consequences of poor security practices.

Source: ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents, 15. 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

moderate

to go live

HR system / LMS

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

Training completion records and phishing simulation results by business unit · HR system / LMS

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Annual security education plan naming the current threat topics covered, the audience and the owner of the programme · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Security awareness training content covering current threats and the consequences of poor practice · HR system / LMS
Suspicious email and activity reporting channel with a sample of user reports and responses · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 4 artefacts that already live in a system (HR system / LMS); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Training delivered once at induction and never refreshed
Staff unsure how to report a suspicious email or website
Phishing simulation results not used to target further training

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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14 Block spoofed emails (Very Good) · 16 Antivirus software with signatures (Limited)