Security Assessment
What is Security Assessment?
A comprehensive evaluation of an organization's security posture including vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and policy review.
Terms that appear alongside security assessment
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as security assessment. The number is how many controls name both.
- incident response 6 shared controls
- audit 6 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
- authorization 5 shared controls
- remediation 5 shared controls
- compliance 4 shared controls
- supply chain risk 4 shared controls
- security controls 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern security assessment
What the standards actually require on security assessment
Requirements naming security assessment across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
At the conclusion of a security assessment for a system, a plan of action and milestones is produced by the system owner.
ISM-1564 · At the conclusion of a security assessment for a system, a plan of action and milestones i →Providers with public-opinion attributes or social-mobilisation capacity must carry out a security assessment in accordance with relevant national provisions.
CN-ALG-A27 · Algorithm Security Assessment →Per MTSA + 33 CFR Parts 101-106 + USCG NVIC 2024-01 cyber update: Facility Security Assessment + Facility Security Plan (FSP) + Format and Content of FSP.
USMTSA-1 · Facility Security Assessment and Plan →ITSG-33: assess implemented security controls and grant an authorization to operate (ATO) based on residual risk acceptance.
ITSG33-RMP-5 · Security Assessment and Authorization →Critical information infrastructure operators and handlers reaching the CAC-specified volume must store PI collected/generated in China domestically; any cross-border provision must pass a CAC security assessment unless exempted.
PIPL-Art40 · Data Localisation and Security Assessment for CIIOs →Assess security requirements in the system at defined frequency to determine if controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome.
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