CIS Controls v8
CIS Control 9: Email and Web Browser Protections

CIS Controls v8 CIS-9.5: Implement DMARC

Put DMARC policy and verification in place to reduce the risk of forged or altered email appearing to come from legitimate domains, beginning with the SPF and DKIM standards.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 13 controls across 9 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • ISM-0574 SPF records for organisational domains
  • ISM-0861 DKIM signing of outgoing email
  • ISM-1540 DMARC reject policy for organisational domains

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 8.21 Security of network services
  • 8.24 Use of cryptography

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • ASD37-14 Block spoofed emails (Very Good)

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.21 Security of network services

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 5.4.1 5.4.1 Mechanisms detect and protect against phishing

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC6.6 CC6.6 Protection against threats from outside the system boundary

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 9: Email and Web Browser Protections

You are reading one control. How much of CIS Controls v8 have you already done?

CIS Controls v8 CIS-9.5 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of CIS Controls v8 your existing evidence covers. Hold ISO 27001:2022 and 102 of 153 CIS Controls v8 controls already carry evidence.

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 240 were rejected on the ISO 27001:2022 pair alone.

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