CIS Controls v8
CIS Control 14: Security Awareness and Skills Training

CIS Controls v8 CIS-14.8: Train Workforce on the Dangers of Connecting to and Transmitting Enterprise Data Over Insecure Networks

Teach the workforce the risks of joining insecure networks and sending data across them while doing enterprise work. Where the enterprise has remote workers, the training has to cover how every user should set up their home network securely.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 25 controls across 14 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ISO 27701:2019 · 3 controls

PCI DSS 4.0 · 3 controls

  • 12.6.3 12.6.3 Security awareness training on hire and annually with acknowledgment
  • 12.6.3.1 12.6.3.1 Awareness training covers phishing and social engineering
  • 12.6.3.2 12.6.3.2 Awareness training covers acceptable use of end-user technologies

SOC 2 · 3 controls

  • SOC2-CC2.2 CC2.2 Internal communication of objectives and control responsibilities (COSO principle 14)
  • SOC2-CC5.3 CC5.3 Deploying controls through policies and procedures (COSO principle 12)
  • SOC2-CC6.6 CC6.6 Protection against threats from outside the system boundary

CMMC 2.0 · 2 controls

ISO 22301:2019 · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 6.3 Information security awareness, education and training
  • 6.7 Remote working

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • 6.3 Information security awareness, education and training
  • 6.7 Remote working

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • ANSSI-HYG-32 Secure the Network Connection of Devices Used for Mobile Working
  • ISM-1299 Mobile device security precautions for personnel

FedRAMP High · 1 control

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness

FedRAMP Moderate · 1 control

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
  • NIST-CSF-PR.AT-01 Personnel are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge and skills to perform general tasks with cybersecurity risks in mind
  • 03.02.01 Literacy Training and Awareness

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in CIS Control 14: Security Awareness and Skills Training

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