37 Personnel management (Very Good)
Personnel management including pre-employment checks, ongoing security awareness training, and management of disgruntled employees and departing personnel.
Source: ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents, 37. 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.
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
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Pre-employment screening records for a sample of new starters, including identity, reference and police checks · HR system / LMS
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- HR to IT leaver notifications with timestamps compared against account disable times for recent departures · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Security awareness training completion records and schedule for ongoing refresher sessions · HR system / LMS
- Offboarding checklists showing prompt account removal and asset return for departing staff, plus the process for managing disgruntled staff · Policy repository / GRC workspace
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Common gaps auditors find
- Contractors and temporary staff onboarded without the checks applied to permanent employees
- Accounts for departed staff left active for weeks because HR does not notify IT promptly
- No process linking HR concerns about disgruntled employees to closer access monitoring
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