PM-14 Testing, Training, and Monitoring
Program Management
Description
a. Implement a process for ensuring that organizational plans for conducting security and privacy testing, training, and monitoring activities associated with organizational systems: 1. Are developed and maintained; and 2. Continue to be executed; and b. Review testing, training, and monitoring plans for consistency with the organizational risk management strategy and organization-wide priorities for risk response actions.
Supplemental Guidance
A process for organization-wide security and privacy testing, training, and monitoring helps ensure that organizations provide oversight for testing, training, and monitoring activities and that those activities are coordinated. With the growing importance of continuous monitoring programs, the implementation of information security and privacy across the three levels of the risk management hierarchy and the widespread use of common controls, organizations coordinate and consolidate the testing and monitoring activities that are routinely conducted as part of ongoing assessments supporting a variety of controls. Security and privacy training activities, while focused on individual systems and specific roles, require coordination across all organizational elements. Testing, training, and monitoring plans and activities are informed by current threat and vulnerability assessments.
Changes from Rev 4
Privacy added. Review of plans for consistency with risk management strategy added.
Patterns that use this control (15)
Grouped by the emphasis each pattern gives it.
Critical (3)
Important (9)
- SP-029 Zero Trust Architecture
- SP-031 Security Monitoring and Response
- SP-034 Cyber Resilience
- SP-037 Privileged User Management
- SP-038 Vulnerability Management and Patching
- SP-042 Third Party Risk Management
- SP-045 AI Governance and Responsible AI
- SP-046 External Attack Surface Management
- SP-049 AI in Security Operations (draft)