ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents · Limiting the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents
20 Multi-factor authentication (Essential)
Multi-factor authentication including for VPNs, RDP, SSH and other remote access, and for all users when they perform a privileged action or access an important (sensitive/high-availability) data repository.
4
artefacts
2
held by a system
1
at each review
easy
to go live
Cloud console / configuration management
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Configuration / tooling output demonstrating the strategy · Cloud console / configuration management
- Records showing ongoing operation · Document repository
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence the mitigation strategy is implemented and maintained: Multi-factor authentication · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Coverage across in-scope systems · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Automate the pull from your Cloud console / configuration management. Configuration snapshots and change history from the cloud console or IaC repository, diffed against the baseline.
Common gaps auditors find
- Strategy partially deployed (not all systems)
- No evidence of ongoing maintenance
- Effectiveness rating not met
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 sheet19 Patch operating systems (Essential) · 21 Disable local administrator accounts (Excellent)