Control Audit
What is Control Audit?
A focused examination of specific controls to evaluate their design adequacy and operating effectiveness in achieving control objectives.
Terms that appear alongside control audit
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as control audit. The number is how many controls name both.
- audit 8 shared controls
- access control 8 shared controls
- encryption 3 shared controls
- authentication 3 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
- encryption at rest 2 shared controls
- integrity 2 shared controls
- key management 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern control audit
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 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) →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
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