9.1 Ensure Use of Only Fully Supported Browsers and Email Clients
Ensure only fully supported browsers and email clients are allowed to execute in the enterprise, only using the latest version of browsers and email clients provided through the vendor.
4
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
at each review
moderate
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 safeguard · Cloud console / configuration management
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence the safeguard is implemented: Ensure Use of Only Fully Supported Browsers and Email Clients · Document repository
- Records showing the safeguard is operating (logs, reports, reviews) · SIEM / log platform
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Policy/standard covering CIS Control 9 (Email and Web Browser Protections) · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Start with the 1 of 4 artefacts that already live in a system (Cloud console / configuration management); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- Safeguard implemented for some assets but not all in scope
- No evidence of ongoing operation (point-in-time only)
- Implementation Group IG1 baseline 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.
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