What is the most common gap auditors find on PR.AT-01?

Annual training only with no reinforcement

`PR.AT-01` Personnel are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge and skills to perform…

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on PR.AT-01 Personnel are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge and skills to perform…?

Security awareness program curriculum; Completion records by population; Phishing simulation results and trends; Awareness campaign artefacts (posters, emails); Annual program effectiveness review.

Personnel are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge and skills to perform general tasks with cybersecurity risks in mind

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, PR.AT-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

HR system / LMS

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

Completion records by population · HR system / LMS

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Annual program effectiveness review · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Security awareness program curriculum · HR system / LMS
Phishing simulation results and trends · HR system / LMS
Awareness campaign artefacts (posters, emails) · HR system / LMS

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your HR system / LMS 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

Annual training only with no reinforcement
Phishing simulations easy and not realistic
Contractors excluded from awareness
Effectiveness measured by completion rate only

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

PR.AA-06 Physical access to assets is managed, monitored, and enforced commensurate with risk · PR.AT-02 Individuals in specialized roles are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge…