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Control Monitoring

What is Control Monitoring?

The ongoing assessment of control performance and effectiveness through testing, metrics, and automated monitoring tools.

Risk Management

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

What the standards actually require on control monitoring

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

CMMC 2.01 control

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
FedRAMP High1 control

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
IEC 624431 control

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

What is Control Monitoring?
The ongoing assessment of control performance and effectiveness through testing, metrics, and automated monitoring tools.
Why is Control Monitoring important for compliance?
Control Monitoring is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding control monitoring 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 Monitoring?
Control Monitoring appears in the requirement text of CMMC 2.0, Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) Release 2024, CNCF Security Technical Advisory Group (TAG), FedRAMP High, IACS Unified Requirements E26/E27 - Cyber Resilience of Ships and On-Board Systems. 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 Monitoring?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how control monitoring 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 Monitoring 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.