What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on SR-11 Component Authenticity?

Anti-counterfeit policy and procedures; Authenticity verification methods used; Records of suspected counterfeits and their reporting; Training for staff who receive components.

What is the most common gap auditors find on SR-11?

authenticity assumed because the reseller is authorized

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) · C-SCRM Family: Supply Chain Risk Management

`SR-11` Component Authenticity

Establishes an anti-counterfeit policy and the means to detect and report counterfeit components.

Source: NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain), SR-11. 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 NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Document repository

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

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Records of suspected counterfeits and their reporting · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Anti-counterfeit policy and procedures · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Authenticity verification methods used · Document repository
Training for staff who receive components · HR system / LMS

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

authenticity assumed because the reseller is authorized
suspected counterfeits discarded rather than reported

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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SR-10 Inspection of Systems or Components · SR-12 Component Disposal