Topic

Protecting systems and their resources

Applicable to

all

History

Jun 2022

System owners ensure controls for each system and its operating environment are assessed to determine if they have been implemented correctly and are operating as intended.

Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and recommendations throughout the publication to clarify content. This included the adoption of ‘control’ terminology, in preference to ‘security control’ terminology, to allow for the capture of other types of controls in the future, such as privacy controls, in addition to security controls.

In addition, formatting changes were made to the system security plan annex template and the cloud controls matrix template in order to increase their alignment, such as the inclusion of an ‘implementation status’ column within the system security plan annex template. Furthermore, a new ‘responsible entity’ column was added to both templates in order to capture information on the responsible system (in the case of inherited controls) or responsible vendor (in the case of multi-vendor systems) that are responsible for the implementation of controls. Note, this column can also be used to capture information on teams or individuals that are responsible for the implementation of controls if desired.

Jan 2021

System owners ensure security controls for each system and its operating environment are assessed to determine if they have been implemented correctly and are operating as intended.

New ‘protecting systems and their resources’ content, along with four new controls, have been added to reflect the six step risk management framework.