What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on SI.L2-3.14.2 Malicious Code Protection?

Identification of designated protection locations, endpoints and gateways; Malicious code protection deployment and coverage reporting; Configuration showing protection is active.

What is the most common gap auditors find on SI.L2-3.14.2?

Endpoints covered while email and web gateways are not

CMMC 2.0 · System and Information Integrity

`SI.L2-3.14.2` Malicious Code Protection

Provide malicious code protection at the points in the system where such code is likely to enter or execute.

Source: CMMC 2.0, SI.L2-3.14.2. 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 CMMC 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

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. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

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

Configuration showing protection is active · Cloud console / configuration management

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Identification of designated protection locations, endpoints and gateways · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Malicious code protection deployment and coverage reporting · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 3 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

Endpoints covered while email and web gateways are not
Coverage gaps on servers and non standard platforms
Protection installed but disabled or in passive mode

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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