What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on ID.RA-10 Critical suppliers are assessed prior to acquisition?

Critical supplier risk assessment reports; Supplier risk register with scoring; Continuous monitoring summaries for top tier suppliers; Risk acceptance decisions for supplier residual risk; Annual critical supplier risk review.

What is the most common gap auditors find on ID.RA-10?

Critical suppliers defined by spend, not risk

NIST CSF 2.0 · ID - Identify

`ID.RA-10` Critical suppliers are assessed prior to acquisition

Critical suppliers are assessed prior to acquisition

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, ID.RA-10. 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

Critical supplier risk assessment reports · Vendor register / contract repository
Risk acceptance decisions for supplier residual risk · Vendor register / contract repository
Annual critical supplier risk review · Vendor register / contract repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Supplier risk register with scoring · Vendor register / contract repository
Continuous monitoring summaries for top tier suppliers · 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

Critical suppliers defined by spend, not risk
Assessments rely on supplier self attestation
Continuous monitoring superficial
Acceptance decisions not refreshed

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

ID.RA-09 The authenticity and integrity of hardware and software are assessed prior to acquisition and use · PR.AA-01 Identities and credentials for authorized users, services, and hardware are managed by the organization