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.
Management prepares and includes in the report a written assertion on whether the system's controls were effective (suitably designed and operating) throughout the specified period to give reasonable assurance, judged against the applicable criteria, that the...
aicpa-soc-3::M-6 · Written assertion on control effectiveness throughout the period →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 →The assessor uses ASD's defined terminology and its intent when determining control implementation: effective, ineffective, alternate control, not assessed, not applicable, no visibility and not implemented, as defined in the ISM and its controls matrix, apply...
australia-irap-information-security-registered-assessors-program::IRAP-AR-0003 · IRAP-AR-0003 Use ASD's control-effectiveness terminology →Describe ongoing and separate evaluations of key control activities and other internal control components related to cybersecurity: the mix used (continuous and periodic internal audit, penetration testing, independent certification against security specificat...
soc-for-cybersecurity-cybersecurity-risk-management-examination::DC15 · DC15 Process for ongoing and periodic evaluations of key control effectiveness →The plan must require a catalogue of identified vulnerabilities in all IAC segregated environments, with consistent criteria for identifying them and for assessing and categorising them (type, severity);
api-1164::ID.RA-1 · ID.RA-1 Vulnerability catalogue with consistent identification, categorisation and control effectiveness assessment →The entity tests whether its security controls work through a systematic testing program. How it tests and how often must reflect: (a) how quickly vulnerabilities and threats change; (b) the asset's criticality and sensitivity;
apra-cps-234::27 · Para 27 Systematic testing of control effectiveness →Questions people ask about control effectiveness
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