Control Testing
What is Control Testing?
The process of evaluating whether controls are designed appropriately and operating effectively to achieve their intended objectives. Control testing is a core component of compliance audits and attestation engagements.
Frameworks that govern control testing
What the standards actually require on control testing
Requirements naming control testing across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Where a related or third party manages the entity's information assets and the entity relies on that party's own control testing, the entity checks whether the nature and frequency of that testing for those assets meet the same factors set out in 27(a) to 27(e...
apra-cps-234::28 · Para 28 Assess reliance on third-party control testing →Test, validate and document changes to the system before finalising their implementation.
fbi-cjis-security-policy::CM-3(2) · CM-3(2) Configuration Change Control | Testing, Validation, and Documentation of Changes →Grid resilience needs cyber security intertwined with engineering: a continuous security planning cycle, engineering strategies for security, system engineering practices and configurations, monitoring, analysis and control of power system equipment, centralis...
iec-62351-power-systems-communication-security::13:7 · Part 13, clause 7: engineering design and configuration management for grid resilience (security planning, engineering strategies, system engineering practices, equipment monitoring, centralised monitoring, analysis and control, testing, training) →Test, validate, and document changes to the system before finalizing the implementation of the changes.
NIST800-CM-3(2) · CM-3(2) Configuration Change Control | Testing, Validation, and Documentation of Changes →Test, validate, and document changes to the system before finalizing the implementation of the changes.
nist-sp-800-53-revision-5-1-high::CM-3(2) · CM-3(2) Configuration Change Control | Testing, Validation, and Documentation of Changes →Test, validate, and document changes to the system before finalizing the implementation of the changes.
nist-sp-800-53-rev-5-moderate::CM-3(2) · CM-3(2) Configuration Change Control | Testing, Validation, and Documentation of Changes →Questions people ask about control testing
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