BIZOPS-24 Security and Compliance Updates

What is BIZOPS-24 Security and Compliance Updates Control?

Security and Compliance Updates are a vital part of Risk Management. The security space is ever-changing, and as such, the organization needs to assign dedicated personnel responsible for keeping up with security, privacy, and compliance updates. Updates can include but are not limited to known vulnerabilities, attacks, regulation updates, etc.

Available tools in the marketplace

Available templates

TrustCloud has a curated list of templates, internally or externally sourced, to help you get started. Click on the link for a downloadable version:

• SANS institute newsletter to subscribe to
• US-CERT newsletter to subscribe to

Control implementation

To implement this control,

1. Assign a dedicated team or personnel responsible for subscribing to various security, privacy, or regulatory news sources.
2. Subscribe to various security, privacy, or regulatory news sources.
3. Share any critical news with the organization or applicable departments.
4. For NIST 800-171:
   1. All the above steps, including the tracking of the news and updates in a tracking tool,
   2. Review each update in the tracking tool.
   3. Action items were taken based on the review results.

What evidence do auditors look for?

Most auditors, at a minimum, are looking for the below-suggested action:

1. Provide a recent example of a security, privacy, or regulatory newsletter email received that displays the sender and receiver information.

Evidence example

For the suggested action, an example is provided below:

1. Provide a recent example of a security, privacy, or regulatory newsletter email received that displays the sender and receiver information.
   The following screenshot is an example of email forwarded to the entire organization regarding phishing attacks.