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Security Monitoring

What is Security Monitoring?

The continuous observation and analysis of an organization's IT environment to detect security events, threats, and anomalies in real time.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as security monitoring. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on security monitoring

Requirements naming security monitoring across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Deploy security monitoring across the ICS: intrusion detection and prevention systems suited to OT protocols, security audit logging, and security incident and event monitoring (SIEM) to detect and correlate adversarial activity.

CISA-ICS-DID-27 · Security Monitoring (IDS/IPS, Logging, SIEM)

Watch applications and their underlying infrastructure for security-relevant events, and alert responsible stakeholders when those events and their metrics cross defined thresholds.

CCM-LOG-03 · Security Monitoring and Alerting

Institutions shall continuously monitor and log security-relevant events to detect anomalous activities and potential information-security incidents, with appropriate alerting and response.

EBA-GL-3.4.5 · Security monitoring

Undertakings establish procedures to continuously monitor activities impacting information security (internal/external factors, provider and user transactions, internal/external threats) and implement capabilities to detect, report and respond to anomalous act...

EIOPA-ICTSG-GL.11 · Security monitoring

Centralized SIEM correlates logs across systems with use cases tuned to detect threats, with 24x7 monitoring.

IS-VI.A.2 · Security Monitoring and SIEM
HKMA TM-G-11 control

HKMA TM-G-1 Cyber + Audit + Outsourcing + Cloud. (1) SECURITY MONITORING AND SIEM (TM-G-1.7.1) - SIEM + SOC + 24x7 monitoring + log management + correlation + use cases + alert handling + escalation + UEBA + behavior analytics + SOAR automation + threat detect...

HKMA-TMG1-Cyber-Monitoring-Threat-Intel-IR-Audit-Outsource-Cloud · TM-G-1 Security Monitoring + SIEM + Threat Intel + Cyber IR + Audit + Outsourcing + Cloud Computing Risk

Questions people ask about security monitoring

What is Security Monitoring?
The continuous observation and analysis of an organization's IT environment to detect security events, threats, and anomalies in real time.
Why is Security Monitoring important for compliance?
Security Monitoring is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding security monitoring helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Security Monitoring?
Security Monitoring appears in the requirement text of CISA Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Guidance, Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1, EBA Guidelines on ICT and Security Risk Management (EBA/GL/2024/07), EIOPA Guidelines on ICT Security and Governance (EIOPA-BoS-20/600), FFIEC IT Examination Handbook. Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Security Monitoring?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how security monitoring applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Security Monitoring applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.