14.5 Train Workforce Members on Causes of Unintentional Data Exposure
Make staff aware of how data gets exposed by accident, such as sending sensitive data to the wrong recipient, losing a portable device, or publishing to an unintended audience. Implementation Groups: IG1, IG2 and IG3 (part of the IG1 essential cyber hygiene baseline, so every enterprise applies it). Asset type: Users. Security function: Protect.
Source: CIS Controls v8.1, 14.5. 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 CIS Controls v8.1 in the compliance library.
Each safeguard shows its Implementation Groups. IG1 is the essential baseline for every enterprise, IG2 adds to it, IG3 is all 153. Version 8.1 adds the Govern security function and asks for more processes to be documented; numbering is unchanged from v8.
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
- Completion records · HR system / LMS
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Training content on misdirected email, lost devices and accidental publication · HR system / LMS
- Incident trends used to update content · HR system / LMS
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Topic absent from training
- Cloud sharing links not covered
- No link to actual incident data
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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