Overview
CSC V7 control 20.4 recommends that organisations “Include tests for the presence of unprotected system information and artifacts that would be useful to attackers, including network diagrams, configuration files, older penetration test reports, e-mails or documents containing passwords or other information critical to system operation.
Note
CSC V7 places this control in the category of “Penetration Tests and Red Team Exercises”.
CSC V7 places this control in the function of “N/A”.
This control protects the following type of asset “N/A”.
What is CIS Critical Security Controls?
The CIS Controls (formerly known as Critical Security Controls) are a recommended set of actions for cyber defense that provide specific and actionable ways to protect against cyber attacks.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) publishes the CIS Critical Security Controls (CSC) to help organizations better defend against known attacks by distilling key security concepts into actionable controls to achieve greater overall cybersecurity defense.