What is the most common gap auditors find on GV.SC-02?

No internal owner for critical suppliers

`GV.SC-02` Cybersecurity roles and responsibilities for suppliers, customers, and partners are established…

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on GV.SC-02 Cybersecurity roles and responsibilities for suppliers, customers, and partners are established…?

Supplier security roles and responsibilities matrix; Vendor management organization chart with cyber liaison; Internal owners assigned per critical supplier; Joint operating model documentation; Annual review of supplier accountability.

Cybersecurity roles and responsibilities for suppliers, customers, and partners are established, communicated, and coordinated internally and externally

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, GV.SC-02. 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

Annual review of supplier accountability · Vendor register / contract repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Supplier security roles and responsibilities matrix · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Vendor management organization chart with cyber liaison · Vendor register / contract repository
Internal owners assigned per critical supplier · Vendor register / contract repository
Joint operating model documentation · 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

No internal owner for critical suppliers
Liaison role unfilled during turnover
Joint operating model exists only for top tier
Annual review not performed

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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