What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on SI-4(24) System Monitoring | Indicators of Compromise?

System and information integrity policy; System and information integrity procedures; Procedures addressing system monitoring; System design documentation; System monitoring tools and techniques documentation; System configuration settings and associated documentation.

What is the most common gap auditors find on SI-4(24)?

Indicators of compromise from the defined sources are not collected or distributed

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · SI - System and Information Integrity

`SI-4(24)` System Monitoring | Indicators of Compromise

Discover, collect, and distribute to organization-defined personnel or roles, indicators of compromise provided by organization-defined sources.

Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, SI-4(24). 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 800-53 Rev 5 in the compliance library.

Base controls and their enhancements. Which apply follows the baseline you are assessed against (for example FedRAMP Moderate or High, or the low, moderate and high baselines of SP 800-53B). Text in square brackets is a parameter your organisation sets.

artefacts

held by a system

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. 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

System monitoring logs or records · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

System audit records · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Test of Organizational processes for system monitoring; organizational processes for the discovery, collection, distribution, and use of indicators of compromise; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing a system monitoring capability; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the discovery, collection, di · SIEM / log platform

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

System and information integrity policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
System and information integrity procedures · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Procedures addressing system monitoring · Policy repository / GRC workspace
System design documentation · Document repository
System monitoring tools and techniques documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
System configuration settings and associated documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace

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

Indicators of compromise from the defined sources are not collected or distributed
Indicators of compromise are not delivered to the defined personnel or roles

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