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.
Collect additional evidence when incident discovered, establish type and severity, and document everything
PICERL-I2 · Evidence Collection →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 →Support regulatory audits for cloud-native environments: evidence collection, compliance automation and continuous control monitoring mapped to applicable regimes.
CNCF-COMP-AUDITS · Regulatory Audits →Execute ISMS audit including opening meeting, evidence collection and findings generation.
27007-6.3 · Conducting Audit Activities →Apply NIST SP 800-146 Section 9.4 (Security Recommendations) and Section 9.5 (Privacy Recommendations) across the cloud portfolio. Security recommendations must address (a) shared responsibility model documented per service-model, (b) identity and access manag...
NISTSP146-6 · Cloud Security and Privacy Recommendations →Execute the Implement step per NIST SP 800-37 Rev 2 Chapter 3 Step 4. Implement the controls selected in Step 2 and document how the controls are employed in the system and environment of operation.
NISTSP37-4 · RMF Implement Step: Control Implementation and Documentation →Questions people ask about evidence collection
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