CA-7 Continuous Monitoring
Monitors supplier and component risk continuously rather than at the point of purchase or renewal.
3
artefacts
2
held by a system
1
at each review
easy
to go live
SIEM / log platform
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Monitoring strategy covering suppliers and critical components · SIEM / log platform
- Monitoring output such as supplier risk feeds or reassessments · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence results are reviewed and acted on · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Automate the pull from your SIEM / log platform. Retention and alert rules exported from the SIEM; review evidence is the closed-alert record with reviewer and time.
Common gaps auditors find
- supplier reviewed only at renewal
- monitoring feed purchased but unread
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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