What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on RS.MI-02 Incidents are eradicated?

Eradication procedure by attack technique; Malware removal verification records; Persistence removal evidence; Re imaging and rebuilding policy; Post eradication validation testing.

What is the most common gap auditors find on RS.MI-02?

Eradication relies on antivirus signatures only

NIST CSF 2.0 · RS - Respond

`RS.MI-02` Incidents are eradicated

Incidents are eradicated. Control from NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 framework, domain: RS - Respond.

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, RS.MI-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

Malware removal verification records · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
Persistence removal evidence · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Eradication procedure by attack technique · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Re imaging and rebuilding policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Post eradication validation testing · Document repository

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

Eradication relies on antivirus signatures only
Persistence checks superficial
Re imaging avoided for time pressure
Validation testing not retained

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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RS.MI-01 Incidents are contained