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Threat Management

What is Threat Management?

The ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and responding to cybersecurity threats facing an organization.

Information Security

What the standards actually require on threat management

Requirements naming threat management across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

Maintain threat intelligence, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and red team capabilities to identify and remediate weaknesses in a timely manner.

SIG-P-01 · Threat Management

Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and threat assessments on the CII, remediate identified vulnerabilities within prescribed timeframes, and track threat intelligence relevant to the CII sector.

SCA-VM-1 · Vulnerability and Threat Management for CII

The entity must manage the personnel security lifecycle, including onboarding, ongoing suitability and insider-threat management, and offboarding (removal of access and return of assets).

DISP-PERS-LIFECYCLE · Onboarding, offboarding and ongoing suitability

Questions people ask about threat management

What is Threat Management?
The ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and responding to cybersecurity threats facing an organization.
Why is Threat Management important for compliance?
Threat Management is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding threat management 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 Threat Management?
Threat Management appears in the requirement text of SIG (Shared Assessments), Singapore Cybersecurity Act 2018, Defence Industry Security Program (DISP). Across these standards we have identified 3 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Threat Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how threat management 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.

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