FedRAMP Moderate
AU - Audit and Accountability

FedRAMP Moderate AU-1: Policy and Procedures

Develop, document, disseminate and review the policy for audit and accountability, and its procedures, on the FedRAMP-defined cadence: policy at least annually under High and at least every three years under Moderate, procedures at least annually and after significant changes under both.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 25 controls across 18 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

CIS Controls v8 · 4 controls

  • CIS-14.1 Establish and Maintain a Security Awareness Program
  • CIS-15.2 Establish and Maintain a Service Provider Management Policy
  • CIS-17.4 Establish and Maintain an Incident Response Process
  • CIS-8.1 Establish and Maintain an Audit Log Management Process

PCI DSS 4.0 · 4 controls

  • 1.1.1 1.1.1 Requirement 1 policies and procedures governed
  • 10.2.1 10.2.1 Audit logging enabled on all system components
  • 12.1.1 12.1.1 Overall information security policy established and disseminated
  • 12.1.2 12.1.2 Security policy reviewed annually and updated as needed

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.1 Policies for information security
  • 8.15 Logging
  • ASBv3-GS-7 Define and implement logging, threat detection and incident response strategy

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • CCM-LOG-01 Logging and Monitoring Policy and Procedures

HIPAA Security Rule · 1 control

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.1 Policies for information security
  • NIST-CSF-GV.PO-02 Policy for managing cybersecurity risks is reviewed, updated, communicated, and enforced to reflect changes in requirements, threats, technology, and organizational mission
  • AU-1 AU-1 Policy and Procedures
  • AU-1 AU-1 Policy and Procedures
  • AU-1 AU-1 Policy and Procedures

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC5.3 CC5.3 Deploying controls through policies and procedures (COSO principle 12)

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 AU - Audit and Accountability

You are reading one control. How much of FedRAMP Moderate have you already done?

FedRAMP Moderate AU-1 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of FedRAMP Moderate your existing evidence covers. Hold ISO 27002:2022 and 182 of 323 FedRAMP Moderate 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. 348 were rejected on the ISO 27002:2022 pair alone.

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