EvidenceSheet

RA-7 Risk Response

Requires the organisation to respond to findings from security and privacy assessments, monitoring and audits, so identified risk is treated rather than only recorded.

6
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
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

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • Vulnerability scan reports for internal, external, and authenticated scopes · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Penetration test report with retest evidence · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
  • Risk acceptance memos signed by accountable executives · Policy repository / GRC workspace

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Control implementation statement for RA-7 citing the system mission and inheritance from common controls · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Risk register with likelihood, impact, and treatment owners · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Threat intelligence feed subscriptions and triage workflow · 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

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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RA-5(11) Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning | Public Disclosure Program. Establish a public reporting channel for receiving reports of vulnerabilities in organizational systems and system components · RA-9 Criticality Analysis. Identify critical system components and functions by performing a criticality analysis for [Assignment: organization-defined systems, system components, or system services] at [Assignment: organization-defined decision points in the system development life cycle]