PS-7 External personnel security
Requires personnel security requirements including roles and responsibilities to be established for external providers, providers to be required to comply with them, the requirements to be documented, providers to notify
4
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
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
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Notification records received from providers about transfers and terminations · Document repository
- Monitoring evidence such as provider attestations or audit results · SIEM / log platform
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Documented personnel security requirements for external providers · Document repository
- Contract clauses binding providers to those requirements and to the notification timeframe · Vendor register / contract repository
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- No obligation on providers to notify departures, so provider staff keep working credentials
- Requirements documented but compliance never monitored
- Badges and privileges tracked per provider organization rather than per individual
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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