EvidenceSheet

PM-10 Authorization Process. Manage the security and privacy state of organizational systems and the environments in which those systems operate through authorization processes; Designate individuals to fulfill specific roles and responsibilities within the organizational risk

Authorization Process. Manage the security and privacy state of organizational systems and the environments in which those systems operate through authorization processes; Designate individuals to fulfill specific roles .

5
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
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

  • Integration of the authorisation process with the continuous monitoring output that should inform it · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Evidence that authorisations are tracked and reported, including those expired or operating under conditions · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • The documented authorisation process covering how the security and privacy state of systems is managed · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Designations of individuals to the specific risk management roles, such as authorising official and system owner · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Current authorisation decisions for organisational systems, with dates and conditions · Document repository

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your SIEM / log platform 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

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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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PM-9 Risk Management Strategy. Develops a comprehensive strategy to manage: Security risk to organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation associated with the operation and use of organizational systems; and Privacy risk · PM-11 Mission and Business Process Definition. Define organizational mission and business processes with consideration for information security and privacy and the resulting risk to organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation; and