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CSC V8 control 17.9 – Establish and Maintain Security Incident Thresholds

Overview

CSC V8 control 17.9 recommends that organisations “Establish and maintain security incident thresholds, including, at a minimum, differentiating between an incident and an event. Examples can include: abnormal activity, security vulnerability, security weakness, data breach, privacy incident, etc. Review annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard.”.

Note

CSC V8 places this control in the category of “Incident Response Management”.

CSC V8 places this control in the function of “Recover”.

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.

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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