Control Monitoring
What is Control Monitoring?
The ongoing assessment of control performance and effectiveness through testing, metrics, and automated monitoring tools.
Terms that appear alongside control monitoring
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as control monitoring. The number is how many controls name both.
- access control 9 shared controls
- physical security 3 shared controls
- encryption 2 shared controls
- security controls 2 shared controls
- compliance 2 shared controls
- network segmentation 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on control monitoring
Requirements naming control monitoring across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Monitor security controls continuously so their effectiveness is known on an ongoing basis rather than only at assessment time.
CA.L2-3.12.3 · Security Control Monitoring →Per PSPF Physical Security: secure physical environment. Requirements include (a) implement physical security including perimeter + access control + monitoring + (b) implement secure zones (Zone 1-5 per PSPF) for classified handling + (c) implement secure tran...
PSPF24-4 · Physical Security →Support regulatory audits for cloud-native environments: evidence collection, compliance automation and continuous control monitoring mapped to applicable regimes.
CNCF-COMP-AUDITS · Regulatory Audits →Employ environmental control monitoring that provides an alarm or notification of changes potentially harmful to personnel or equipment to FedRAMP-defined personnel or roles.
PE-14(2) · Environmental Controls | Monitoring with Alarms and Notifications →UR E26 Goal 2 (Protect) requires network segmentation following IEC 62443 zones and conduits model. Ship networks must be segmented into zones based on criticality + function: Untrusted (internet + crew internet + guest networks);
IACS-UR-E26-Protect-NetworkSegmentation-Zones-Conduits-Boundary · IACS UR E26 Protect Goal - Network Segmentation + Zones + Conduits + Boundary Defence + Data Diodes →Asset owners establish, implement and maintain a documented Cyber Security Management System covering scope, policy, risk analysis, risk treatment, training, business continuity, physical security, network segmentation, access control, monitoring, incident res...
62443-2-1-CSMS · Cyber Security Management System (CSMS) for IACS →Questions people ask about control monitoring
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