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Batch Review

The organization shall conduct periodic reviews of batch processing activities to ensure their effectiveness, efficiency, and alignment with organizational needs. Reviews shall evaluate job scheduling, monitoring, and failure management against established criteria and best practices, identifying opportunities for batch processing improvement.

Requirement ID
OPS-007-R008
Parent Control
Domain Code

Requirement Details & Guidance

OPS-007-R008 · OPS-007
Why This Requirement Exists

This requirement exists to periodically evaluate job scheduling, monitoring, and failure management and to ensure operational services are managed consistently, reliably, and with appropriate control.

Implementation Guidance

Define and document the process for periodically evaluate job scheduling, monitoring, and failure management. Establish accountable owners, inputs and outputs, approval or validation points, operating criteria, schedules or thresholds where applicable, exception handling, monitoring, reporting, review, and evidence requirements. Integrate the process with change, incident, risk, asset, security, and service-management processes where relevant.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

OPS-007-R008 · Field Guidance

Business Examples

    Common Audit Findings

      Common Mistakes

        Best Practices & Ownership

        OPS-007 · Recommended Approach

        Recommended Practices

          Typical Owner

          Cross-Mapped Regulatory Frameworks

          Harmonized Control Mappings
          FRAMEWORK CODE FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS FAMILY / CATEGORY VERSION ACTION
          IRDAI IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §2.6-3.3 – Job Scheduling
          India
          Guideline
          vLatest View →
          RBI-CSF RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 4) Network Management and Security – 4.8 SOPs for major IT activities and network connections
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 4.1 DE.CM: Security Continuous Monitoring
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 7 – ICT systems, protocols and tools Article 9(4)(e) – ICT change management: recording, testing, assessing, approving, implementing and verifying changes
          EU
          Regulation
          vCurrent View →
          ISO27002 ISO/IEC 27002 ISO/IEC 27002 is a guidance standard containing a... Clause: 8.16 – Monitoring activities
          ISO
          Standard
          v2022 View →
          NIS2 NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(e) – Security in network and information systems acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure
          EU
          Directive
          vCurrent View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 10.2.1 – Audit logs are enabled and active for all; 10.4.2 – Logs of all other system components (those
          PCI
          Standard
          v4 View →
          COBIT2019 COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.4 – Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) > DSS01 – Managed Operations > DSS01.02 – Manage outsourced I&T services.
          COBIT
          Governance Framework
          v2019 View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: ID.IM – Improvement | ID.IM-03 – Improvements are identified from execution of operational processes, procedures, and activities DE.CM – Continuous Monitoring | DE.CM-09 – Computing hardware and software, runtime environments, and their data are monitored to find potentially adverse events PR.PS – Platform Security | PR.PS-04 – Log records are generated and made available for continuous monitoring
          NIST
          Framework
          v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.3 – AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, 3.1 – ACCESS CONTROL; AU-2 – EVENT LOGGING, AC-3 – ACCESS ENFORCEMENT
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          vRev. 5 View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: PI1.3 – Processing Integrity – The entity implements policies and procedures over system processing to result in products, services, and reporting to meet the entity’s objectives. PI1.5 – Processing Integrity – The entity implements policies and procedures to store inputs, items in processing, and outputs completely, accurately, and timely in accordance with system specifications to meet the entity’s objectives. CC7.2 – System Operations – The entity monitors system components and the operation of those components for anomalies that are indicative of malicious acts, natural disasters, and errors affecting the entity's ability to meet its objectives; anomalies are analyzed to determine whether they represent security events. CC4.1 – Monitoring of Controls – COSO Principle 16: The entity selects, develops, and performs ongoing and/or separate evaluations to ascertain whether the components of internal control are present and functioning.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
          vLatest View →

          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          IT Operations & Service Management (OPS)
          Purpose:
          To ensure the availability, performance, and resilience of IT services.
          Scope:
          Enterprise

          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          Batch Processing & Job Management (OPS-007)
          Summary:
          Establishes batch processing and job management including scheduling, authorization, execution monitoring, failure management, logging, reporting, recovery, and continuous improvement.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain secure, reliable, and auditable batch processing, workload scheduling, job execution, and operational processing activities.