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
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
Common gaps auditors find
- Advisories arrive in an individual mailbox with no onward distribution
- No tracking of directive deadlines, so compliance cannot be demonstrated
- Vendor advisories monitored while sector and government sources are not
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Build my evidence sheetSI-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