Control Effectiveness
What is Control Effectiveness?
The degree to which a security or compliance control achieves its intended purpose in mitigating a specific risk or meeting a requirement.
Terms that appear alongside control effectiveness
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as control effectiveness. The number is how many controls name both.
- audit 6 shared controls
- continuous monitoring 5 shared controls
- cybersecurity 4 shared controls
- risk appetite 3 shared controls
- governance 3 shared controls
- remediation 3 shared controls
- audit committee 3 shared controls
- penetration testing 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern control effectiveness
What the standards actually require on control effectiveness
Requirements naming control effectiveness across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Determine and document the implementation effectiveness of each in-scope control as the basis for the assessment outcome.
IRAP-OUT-1 · Control effectiveness determination →Continuous Monitoring Strategy. Develop an organization-wide continuous monitoring strategy and implement continuous monitoring programs that include: Establishing the following organization-wide metrics to be monitored: [organization-defined];
NIST800-PM-31 · Continuous Monitoring Strategy. Develop an organization-wide continuous monitoring strategy and implement continuous monitoring programs that include: Establishing the following organization-wide metrics to be monitored: [organization-defined]; Establishing [organization-defined] and [organization-defined] for control effectiveness; Ongoing monitoring →The entity must regularly monitor, review and test controls for design and operating effectiveness at a frequency proportionate to the materiality of the risks controlled, report results to senior management, and rectify any gaps or deficiencies in the control...
CPS230-P30 · Monitoring, Review and Testing of Control Effectiveness →Test the operating effectiveness of data protection controls and measure effectiveness to verify that security requirements have been met.
ADMF-6.4 · Test data protection control effectiveness →Review the effectiveness of implemented risk treatment controls and adjust as needed.
8.5 · Control effectiveness review →Review the effectiveness of implemented risk treatment controls and adjust as needed.
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