EvidenceSheet

1.2.6 Security features for insecure services defined

Security features are defined and implemented for all services, protocols, and ports in use that are considered to be insecure.

5
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
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

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • Configuration showing compensating controls applied · Cloud console / configuration management

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Risk assessment document · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Quarterly review records · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Register of insecure protocols with control mapping · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Approval by senior management · Document repository

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your Cloud console / configuration management 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

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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1.2.5 Services, protocols, ports inventoried and justified · 1.2.7 NSC rule sets reviewed every six months