What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on DCS-13 Cabling Security?

Cabling security standard covering conduits, separation of power and data, and labelling; Risk register entries for cabling and supporting plant; Cable route diagrams and inspection reports; Records of locked patch panels and cable rooms; Assessment results of cabling protection measures.

What is the most common gap auditors find on DCS-13?

Cabling exposed in shared risers or ceiling spaces

CSA CCM v4.1 · DCS - Datacenter Security

`DCS-13` Cabling Security

Processes, procedures and technical measures are defined, put in place and assessed so that power and telecommunications cabling at every facility, office and room is protected, in proportion to risk, against being tapped, disrupted or damaged.

Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DCS-13. 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 CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.

Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Policy repository / GRC workspace

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

Records of locked patch panels and cable rooms · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Cable route diagrams and inspection reports · Physical access / facilities
Assessment results of cabling protection measures · Physical access / facilities

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Cabling security standard covering conduits, separation of power and data, and labelling · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Risk register entries for cabling and supporting plant · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling on a schedule; put the documents under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Cabling exposed in shared risers or ceiling spaces
No risk assessment behind the protection chosen
Office cabling ignored because focus is only on the datacenter

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 sheet

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