What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on ID.RA-03 Internal and external threats to the organization are identified and recorded?

Threat catalog with internal and external sources; Insider threat assessment findings; Geopolitical threat watch reports; Threat modeling outputs for critical systems; Periodic threat refresh meeting minutes.

What is the most common gap auditors find on ID.RA-03?

Insider threat scope limited to malicious cases

NIST CSF 2.0 · ID - Identify

`ID.RA-03` Internal and external threats to the organization are identified and recorded

Internal and external threats to the organization are identified and recorded

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, ID.RA-03. 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

Threat modeling outputs for critical systems · Document repository

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Insider threat assessment findings · Document repository
Geopolitical threat watch reports · Document repository
Periodic threat refresh meeting minutes · Policy repository / GRC workspace

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Threat catalog with internal and external sources · Document repository

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your Document repository on a schedule; put the documents under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Insider threat scope limited to malicious cases
Geopolitical analysis absent
Threat modeling done once at design only
Refresh cadence inconsistent

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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ID.RA-02 Cyber threat intelligence is received from information sharing forums and sources · ID.RA-04 Potential impacts and likelihoods of threats exploiting vulnerabilities are identified and recorded