SEC06-BP03 Reduce manual management and interactive access
Perform deployment, configuration, maintenance and investigation on compute through automation, restricting interactive human access to emergency or sandbox situations.
4
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
SIEM / log platform
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Session logs for any interactive access with justification · SIEM / log platform
- Metrics on the proportion of tasks executed by automation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Runbooks and automation documents covering routine compute tasks · Document repository
- Break-glass procedure for interactive access with approval steps · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Automate the pull from your SIEM / log platform. Retention and alert rules exported from the SIEM; review evidence is the closed-alert record with reviewer and time.
Common gaps auditors find
- routine SSH or RDP access as normal practice
- break-glass credentials shared and never rotated
- interactive sessions unlogged so actions cannot be reconstructed
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 sheetSEC06-BP02 Provision compute from hardened images · SEC06-BP04 Validate software integrity