What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on PR.IR-02 The organization's technology assets are protected from environmental threats?

Environmental controls inventory (HVAC, power, fire); Site risk assessments with mitigation status; Cloud region selection rationale for resilience; Building maintenance and inspection records; Environmental incident response procedures.

What is the most common gap auditors find on PR.IR-02?

Single region deployments for critical services

NIST CSF 2.0 · PR - Protect

`PR.IR-02` The organization's technology assets are protected from environmental threats

The organization's technology assets are protected from environmental threats. Control from NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 framework, domain: PR - Protect.

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, PR.IR-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

Policy repository / GRC workspace

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

Site risk assessments with mitigation status · Document repository
Building maintenance and inspection records · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Environmental controls inventory (HVAC, power, fire) · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Cloud region selection rationale for resilience · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Environmental incident response procedures · 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

Single region deployments for critical services
Site risk assessments stale
Building inspections lapsed
Environmental incidents not exercised

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.IR-01 Networks and environments are protected from unauthorized logical access and usage · PR.IR-03 Mechanisms are implemented to achieve resilience requirements in normal and adverse situations