Evidence Collection
What is Evidence Collection?
The process of gathering documentation, records, screenshots, logs, and other artefacts that demonstrate the design and operating effectiveness of controls. Evidence collection is fundamental to compliance audits and attestation engagements.
Terms that appear alongside evidence collection
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as evidence collection. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 5 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- vulnerability 2 shared controls
- shared responsibility model 2 shared controls
- audit trail 2 shared controls
- identity resolution 2 shared controls
- identity verification 2 shared controls
- identity proofing 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern evidence collection
What the standards actually require on evidence collection
Requirements naming evidence collection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The DEFR considers gathering non-digital evidence. The team leader finds out who looks after the premises and equipment on site, who may supply passwords and other details, and the DEFR records that person's name and role.
iso-iec-27037-2012::7.1.1.2 · 7.1.1.2 Non-digital evidence collection →Collection: moving devices that may hold potential digital evidence from where they were found to a laboratory or other controlled place (3.4), with custody starting at that moment.
iso-iec-27043-2015::9.3 · 9.3 Potential digital evidence collection process →Conduct identity proofing per NIST SP 800-63-4 Volume A (Identity Proofing and Enrollment). Collect identity evidence per Section 4.3 (evidence quality tiers FAIR + STRONG + SUPERIOR) appropriate to IAL level.
NISTSP63R4-2 · Identity Proofing: Evidence Collection, Remote Proofing, and Identity Validation Services →The RTO decides and puts in place the level of supervision and any conditions or restrictions on the supervised individual's involvement in training and in collecting assessment evidence, and ensures supervising trainers monitor and are accountable for all tra...
australia-standards-for-registered-training-organisations-2015::1.20 · Clause 1.20 Level of supervision set and supervising trainers accountable →Support regulatory audits for cloud-native environments: evidence collection, compliance automation and continuous control monitoring mapped to applicable regimes.
CNCF-COMP-AUDITS · Regulatory Audits →A method is set for gathering evidence about data protection controls; evidence showing that sensitive data is protected and conforms to its classifications, handling policies and regulatory obligations is collected proactively, automatically where practicable...
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::4.1.2 · 4.1.2 Implementation of data security controls is evidenced →Questions people ask about evidence collection
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