EvidenceSheet

SI-5 Security alerts, advisories, and directives

Requires security alerts, advisories and directives to be received from organization-defined external sources on an ongoing basis, internal alerts to be generated as needed, alerts to be disseminated to defined recipient

4
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
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

  • List of external sources subscribed to for alerts, advisories and directives · SIEM / log platform
  • Records of internal alerts generated and their distribution · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Tracking of directives received with implementation dates against required timeframes · Document repository
  • Notifications issued where a directive could not be met in full · Document repository

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

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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SI-4 System monitoring · SI-6 Security and Privacy Function Verification. Verify the correct operation of [organization-defined]; Perform the verification of the functions specified in SI-6a [organization-defined]; Alert [organization-defined] to failed security and privacy verification tests; and [organization-defined] when anomalies