What is the most common gap auditors find on DE.AE-07?

CTI feeds duplicated rather than deduplicated

`DE.AE-07` Cyber threat intelligence and other contextual information are integrated into the analysis

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on DE.AE-07 Cyber threat intelligence and other contextual information are integrated into the analysis?

Threat intelligence platform integration with SIEM; Indicator lifecycle policy with expiry and tiering; Analyst pivot guide combining CTI with internal context; Subscription roster with feed quality scoring; Quarterly CTI value assessment report.

Cyber threat intelligence and other contextual information are integrated into the analysis

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, DE.AE-07. 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 CSF 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Document repository

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

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Quarterly CTI value assessment report · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Threat intelligence platform integration with SIEM · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Indicator lifecycle policy with expiry and tiering · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Analyst pivot guide combining CTI with internal context · Document repository
Subscription roster with feed quality scoring · Document repository

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

CTI feeds duplicated rather than deduplicated
No mapping of CTI to crown jewel assets
Stale indicators inflate false positive rate
Intel only consumed in SOC, not informing IR or risk

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.

Build my evidence sheet

DE.AE-06 Information on adverse events is provided to authorized staff and tools · DE.AE-08 Incidents are declared when adverse events meet the defined incident criteria