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Insider Awareness

The organization shall promote awareness of insider threats among employees and stakeholders, ensuring the workforce understands the risks and their responsibilities. Awareness shall include training programs, awareness communications, and reporting mechanisms.

Requirement ID
THR-003-R009
Parent Control
THR-003
Domain Code
THR

Requirement Details & Guidance

THR-003-R009 · THR-003
Why This Requirement Exists

Raw threat data becomes useful only when analysts add context, confidence, and relevance to business risk.

Implementation Guidance

Correlate indicators and observations with assets, vulnerabilities, adversary behaviors, campaigns, and business context. Record confidence and analytical judgments.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

THR-003-R009 · Field Guidance

Business Examples

    Common Audit Findings

      Common Mistakes

        Best Practices & Ownership

        THR-003 · Recommended Approach

        Recommended Practices

          Typical Owner

          Cross-Mapped Regulatory Frameworks

          Harmonized Control Mappings
          FRAMEWORK CODE FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS FAMILY / CATEGORY VERSION ACTION
          ISO27001 ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 specifies auditable requirements for... Clause: 7.3 – Awareness
          ISO
          Standard
          		 v2022 View →
          IRDAI IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §2.4-3.2 – On-Boarding and During Employment
          India
          Guideline
          		 vLatest View →
          RBI-CSF RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 8) User Access Control / Management – 8.7 Monitoring abnormal changes in logon patterns; 16) Maintenance, Monitoring, and Analysis of Audit Logs – 16.3 Capture of user-action audit logs to support forensic auditing
          India
          Regulation
          		 vLatest View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 2.2 ID.RA: Risk Assessment; 4.2 DE.DP: Detection Process
          India
          Regulation
          		 vLatest View →
          DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 8(2) – Continuous identification of ICT risk sources, cyber threats and ICT vulnerabilities Article 9(4)(c) – Logical/physical access limitation and access-rights administration
          EU
          Regulation
          		 vCurrent View →
          NIS2 NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(i) – Human resources security, access control policies and asset management
          EU
          Directive
          		 vCurrent View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 12.7.1 – Potential personnel who will have access to; 8.2.4 – Addition, deletion, and modification of user; 8.2.5 – Access for terminated users is immediately
          PCI
          Standard
          		 v4 View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: ID.RA – Risk Assessment | ID.RA-03 – Internal and external threats to the organization are identified and recorded DE.CM – Continuous Monitoring | DE.CM-03 – Personnel activity and technology usage are monitored to find potentially adverse events
          NIST
          Framework
          		 v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.13 – PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, 3.3 – AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY; PM-12 – INSIDER THREAT PROGRAM, AU-13 – MONITORING FOR INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          		 vRev. 5 View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC3.3 – Risk Assessment – COSO Principle 8: The entity considers the potential for fraud in assessing risks to the achievement of 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. CC7.3 – System Operations – The entity evaluates security events to determine whether they could or have resulted in a failure of the entity to meet its objectives (security incidents) and, if so, takes actions to prevent or address such failures.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
          		 vLatest View →

          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          Threat Intelligence & Threat Management (THR)
          Purpose:
          To proactively identify, assess, and manage threats to the organization.
          Scope:
          Enterprise
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          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          Insider Threat Management (THR-003)
          Summary:
          Establishes insider threat management including risk identification, user monitoring, investigation, response, HR coordination, reporting, review, awareness, and continuous improvement.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain a program to identify, detect, investigate, respond to, and mitigate risks associated with malicious, negligent, or compromised insiders.
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