What is the most common gap auditors find on GV.SC-01?

Program exists for direct suppliers only

`GV.SC-01` A cybersecurity supply chain risk management program, strategy, objectives, policies, and processes are…

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on GV.SC-01 A cybersecurity supply chain risk management program, strategy, objectives, policies, and processes are…?

Third party risk management program charter; Supplier risk policy with tiering criteria; Program governance committee minutes; Annual TPRM maturity assessment; Tooling inventory supporting TPRM workflow.

A cybersecurity supply chain risk management program, strategy, objectives, policies, and processes are established and agreed to by organizational stakeholders

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, GV.SC-01. 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

Vendor register / contract 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

Program governance committee minutes · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Annual TPRM maturity assessment · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Third party risk management program charter · Vendor register / contract repository
Supplier risk policy with tiering criteria · Vendor register / contract repository
Tooling inventory supporting TPRM workflow · Policy repository / GRC workspace

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

Program exists for direct suppliers only
Tiering criteria not enforced consistently
Maturity self assessed without independent challenge
Tooling fragmented across business units

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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