EvidenceSheet

RA-7 Risk Response

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

3
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
at each review
moderate
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • Records showing accepted risks are approved at the right level · Document repository

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Evidence findings from assessments and continuous monitoring feed the response process · SIEM / log platform

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Risk response plan or POA&M showing decisions per finding · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 3 artefacts that already live in a system (Document repository); keep the periodic reviews but log each one 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]