CIS Controls v8
CIS Control 8: Audit Log Management

CIS Controls v8 CIS-8.11: Conduct Audit Log Reviews

Review audit logs at least weekly to spot anomalies or unusual events that might signal a threat.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 82 controls across 28 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

FedRAMP High · 9 controls

  • AC-2(12) Account Monitoring for Atypical Usage
  • AC-22 Publicly Accessible Content
  • AU-6 Audit Record Review, Analysis, and Reporting
  • AU-6(3) Correlate Audit Record Repositories
  • AU-7 Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation
  • AU-7(1) Automatic Processing
  • IR-1 Policy and Procedures
  • SA-1 Policy and Procedures
  • SI-4 System Monitoring

FedRAMP Moderate · 9 controls

  • AC-2(12) Account Monitoring for Atypical Usage
  • AC-22 Publicly Accessible Content
  • AU-6 Audit Record Review, Analysis, and Reporting
  • AU-6(3) Correlate Audit Record Repositories
  • AU-7 Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation
  • AU-7(1) Automatic Processing
  • IR-1 Policy and Procedures
  • SA-1 Policy and Procedures
  • SI-4 System Monitoring
  • NIST-CSF-DE.AE-02 Potentially adverse events are analyzed to better understand associated activities
  • NIST-CSF-DE.AE-04 The estimated impact and scope of adverse events are understood
  • NIST-CSF-DE.CM-03 Personnel activity and technology usage are monitored to find potentially adverse events
  • NIST-CSF-GV.OV-03 Organizational cybersecurity risk management performance is evaluated and reviewed for adjustments needed
  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-04 Log records are generated and made available for continuous monitoring
  • NIST-CSF-RS.AN-03 Analysis is performed to establish what has taken place during an incident and the root cause of the incident
  • NIST-CSF-RS.AN-07 Incident data and metadata are collected, and their integrity and provenance are preserved
  • NIST-CSF-RS.MA-02 Incident reports are triaged and validated

PCI DSS 4.0 · 7 controls

  • 10.4.1 10.4.1 Daily review of security-relevant logs
  • 10.4.1.1 10.4.1.1 Automated mechanisms used for audit log review
  • 10.4.2 10.4.2 Periodic review of all other system component logs
  • 10.4.3 10.4.3 Exceptions and anomalies from log review addressed
  • 10.7.1 10.7.1 Service providers detect critical control failures (superseded)
  • 10.7.3 10.7.3 Respond promptly to critical security control failures
  • 12.4.1 12.4.1 Executive responsibility for a PCI DSS compliance program

CMMC 2.0 · 6 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 4 controls

  • 5.25 Assessment and decision on information security events
  • 5.36 Compliance with policies, rules and standards for information security
  • 8.15 Logging
  • 8.16 Monitoring activities

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 4 controls

  • NIST800-AU-6 AU-6 Audit Record Review, Analysis, and Reporting
  • NIST800-AU-7 AU-7 Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation
  • NIST800-SI-4 SI-4 System Monitoring
  • SP800-53-CA Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring Family

SOC 2 · 4 controls

  • SOC2-CC4.2 CC4.2 Evaluating and communicating control deficiencies (COSO principle 17)
  • SOC2-CC7.1 CC7.1 Detecting configuration changes and new vulnerabilities
  • SOC2-CC7.2 CC7.2 Monitoring system components for anomalies
  • SOC2-CC7.3 CC7.3 Evaluating security events to identify incidents
  • ISM-0109 Analysing workstation event logs
  • ISM-1228 Analysing cyber security events for incidents
  • ISM-1986 Analysing critical server event logs

ISO 27701:2019 · 3 controls

  • 5.7 Performance evaluation
  • 5.7.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
  • 6.9.4 Logging and monitoring
  • ASD37-28 Continuous incident detection and response (Excellent)
  • ASD37-31 Hunt to discover incidents (Very Good)
  • ASBv3-LT-1 Enable threat detection capabilities
  • LT-5 Centralize security log management and analysis

HIPAA Security Rule · 2 controls

ISO 22301:2019 · 2 controls

  • 9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
  • 9.2 Internal audit

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.7 Threat intelligence
  • 8.16 Monitoring activities

NIST SP 800-172 · 2 controls

  • 3.11.2e Threat Hunting
  • 3.11.3e Advanced Automation and Analytics Capabilities

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 2 controls

  • E8-APP-ML3 Application Control (ML3)
  • ANSSI-HYG-36 Enable and Configure Logging on the Most Important Components

APRA CPS 234 · 1 control

  • AUCDR-IS-1 Limit risk of unauthorised access to the CDR data environment

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-OPS-13 Logging and Monitoring - Identification of Events
  • 03.03.05 Audit Record Review, Analysis, and Reporting

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 8: Audit Log Management

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