Detective Control
What is Detective Control?
A security control designed to identify and alert on security events, policy violations, or anomalous activities after they have occurred.
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What the standards actually require on detective control
Requirements naming detective control across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Control activities are chosen and developed to bring risks to objectives down to acceptable levels. Points of focus: control activities carry out the risk responses from the risk assessment;
SOC2-CC5.1 · CC5.1 Selecting control activities that mitigate risk (COSO principle 10) →Implement preventive and detective controls commensurate with the potential impact of data being compromised, establishing risk tolerance and selecting controls to bring risk within the risk appetite.
ADMF-5.1 · Implement risk-based protection controls →A data loss prevention strategy and approach are formally established to spot and stop sensitive data leaving the organization's network and controls, whether on purpose or by mistake, using directive, preventive and detective controls over data in use, in mot...
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::4.1.4 · 4.1.4 A Data Loss Prevention program is established →Resource use is to be monitored and adjusted to fit present and expected capacity needs. Purpose: have enough capacity in processing facilities, staff, offices and other facilities.
iso-27002-2022::8.6 · Capacity management →Input: prioritised risks with chosen options. Action: determine every control, from control sets chosen from suitable sources, needed to treat the risks under the chosen options (modify, retain, avoid, share).
iso-27005-2022::8.3 · Determining all controls that are necessary to implement the information security risk treatment options →Describe how responses to assessed risks are developed: matching controls to the protection of assets and to detecting, answering, limiting and recovering from security events;
soc-for-cybersecurity-cybersecurity-risk-management-examination::DC17 · DC17 Process for developing responses to assessed risks, including designing and implementing controls →Questions people ask about detective control
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