C1.1 Confidential information is identified and protected during receipt, processing, storage
Identifies and maintains confidential information to meet the entity's objectives related to confidentiality.
5
artefacts
0
held by a system
3
at each review
hard
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence confidential information is identified across the system, covering where it is received, processed, stored and transmitted · Document repository
- Evidence of the retention period applied to confidential information and of its basis · Data governance / DLP tooling
- Evidence customers are informed of and agree the confidentiality commitments the entity makes · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- The definition of confidential information for the entity, including information designated confidential by customers or by contract · Vendor register / contract repository
- The protections applied, such as access restriction, encryption and handling rules, tied to the identification · Document repository
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Confidentiality commitments made in contracts that were never translated into an internal definition anyone operates against
- Confidential information identified in the primary system while copies in analytics, support tooling and non production environments are unidentified
- Retention undefined, so confidential information is held indefinitely with no basis
- Protection applied uniformly with no relation to the identification, so the identification step adds nothing
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 sheetA1.3 Recovery plan procedures support system recovery from failures · C1.2 Confidential information is disposed of securely