What is the most common gap auditors find on GV.SC-06?

Diligence skipped for urgent procurement

`GV.SC-06` Planning and due diligence are performed to reduce risks before entering into formal supplier or other…

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on GV.SC-06 Planning and due diligence are performed to reduce risks before entering into formal supplier or other…?

Due diligence questionnaire with risk based depth; Pre contract security assessment reports; Independent attestations collected during diligence; Risk acceptance decisions tied to diligence outputs; Onboarding checklist closing residual gaps.

Planning and due diligence are performed to reduce risks before entering into formal supplier or other third-party relationships

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, GV.SC-06. 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

Pre contract security assessment reports · Vendor register / contract repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Due diligence questionnaire with risk based depth · Vendor register / contract repository
Independent attestations collected during diligence · Document repository
Risk acceptance decisions tied to diligence outputs · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Onboarding checklist closing residual gaps · HR system / LMS

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

Diligence skipped for urgent procurement
Attestations accepted without scope verification
Risk acceptance not signed at appropriate level
Onboarding gaps never closed

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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