Key Control
What is Key Control?
A critical control that directly addresses a significant risk and whose failure would materially increase the likelihood or impact of that risk.
Terms that appear alongside key control
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as key control. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk analysis 2 shared controls
- risk committee 2 shared controls
- control effectiveness 2 shared controls
- audit committee 2 shared controls
- iso 31000 2 shared controls
- heat map 2 shared controls
- risk matrix 2 shared controls
- emerging risk 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on key control
Requirements naming key control across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Risk Reporting + KRIs + Performance + Horizon Scanning translate the risk management process into actionable management information.
IRM-Reporting-KRIs-Performance-HorizonScanning-Dashboard-Heatmap-RiskRegister-EmergingRisk · IRM Risk Reporting + Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) + Performance Measurement + Horizon Scanning + Dashboard + Heat Map + Risk Register + Emerging Risk Identification →Conduct controls testing covering each control included in the program of risk analysis and oversight, at a frequency determined by an appropriate risk analysis, with key controls tested no less frequently than every three years for covered entities and the ke...
CFTC-SS-15 · Controls Testing →The data control compliance of cloud and migrated data is monitored, with compliance to the CDMC Key Controls measured and reported (and the controls automated where possible).
CDMC-KC1 · Data Control Compliance →Significant owners, board members, senior management and key control function holders meet fitness and propriety standards.
ICP5 · Suitability of Persons →Address cloud-resident data and hosted storage scope per NIST SP 800-88 Rev 1 considerations (acknowledged in Section 3.6) + cloud-era guidance from NIST CSF 2.0 + NIST SP 800-145 + provider-specific documentation.
NISTSP88-8 · Cloud-Resident Data, Hosted Storage, and Scope Boundaries →Regularly test or otherwise monitor the effectiveness of the safeguards key controls, systems, and procedures. Testing must include continuous monitoring or, in its absence, annual penetration testing and biannual vulnerability assessments.
GLBA-HE-314.4(d) · Testing and Monitoring of Safeguards →Questions people ask about key control
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