SI.L2-3.14.6 Monitor Communications for Attacks
Watch organizational systems, and both inbound and outbound traffic, for attacks and for indicators that an attack may be developing.
Source: CMMC 2.0, SI.L2-3.14.6. 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.
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
- Monitoring capability configuration covering inbound and outbound traffic · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Detection rules or signatures and their tuning records · Document repository
- Records of detected events and the response taken · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Inbound traffic monitored while outbound is not
- Monitoring deployed but alerts unreviewed
- Encrypted traffic unmonitored with no compensating visibility
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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