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Control Audit

What is Control Audit?

A focused examination of specific controls to evaluate their design adequacy and operating effectiveness in achieving control objectives.

Audit and Assurance

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as control audit. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on control audit

Requirements naming control audit across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Implement HIPAA Security Rule Technical Safeguards per 45 CFR 164.312 covering technical access + audit + integrity + authentication.

NISTSP66-6 · Technical Safeguards: Access Control, Audit Controls, Integrity, Person Authentication
HKMA SPM2 controls

HKMA SPM Corporate Governance + Internal Control + Auditing modules. CG CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MODULES: (1) CG-1 Corporate Governance of Locally Incorporated AIs - board composition + independent directors + executive accountability + governance structure + fitn...

HKMA-SPM-CG-IC-AC-Governance-Control-Audit · HKMA SPM Corporate Governance (CG-1/2/3/5/6), Internal Control (IC-1/5), Auditing (AC-G)

Controls organised into families: access control, audit, certification, configuration management, contingency, identification, incident response, maintenance, media, physical, planning, personnel, risk, and system protection.

CA-ITSG33-SC-01 · Security Control Catalogue

Harden operating systems (e.g. Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, macOS) in accordance with the applicable operating-system STIG, covering account management, access control, audit/logging, authentication, cryptographic settings and system services.

STIG-SRG-OS · Operating system STIG hardening

34 CFR 99.31(a)(6)(iii)(D) safeguards requirement + the PTAC Best Practices Guidance + SPPO Guidance. The 2011 final rule explicitly requires APPROPRIATE METHODS to PROTECT PII when disclosed under the studies + audit + evaluation exceptions.

FERPA-Safeguards-PTAC · Data Security Safeguards for PII in Education Records (PTAC Best Practices, SPPO Guidance)
OWASP ASVS1 control

Per OWASP ASVS V4 + V4.3: implement consistent access control. Requirements include (a) implement access control as a server-side enforcement consistently across all endpoints + (b) implement role-based + attribute-based access control where appropriate + (c)...

OWASPASVS-4 · Access Control (V4 + V4.3)

Questions people ask about control audit

What is Control Audit?
A focused examination of specific controls to evaluate their design adequacy and operating effectiveness in achieving control objectives.
Why is Control Audit important for compliance?
Control Audit is a key concept in Audit and Assurance. Understanding control audit helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Control Audit?
Control Audit appears in the requirement text of NIST SP 800-66, HKMA SPM, Canada ITSG-33 - IT Security Risk Management, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Across these standards we have identified 7 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Control Audit?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how control audit applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Control Audit applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.