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Protection Continuous Improvement

The organization shall drive ongoing enhancement of endpoint protection through a continuous improvement process. The process shall use inputs from protection reviews, validation results, incident analysis, threat intelligence, and best practice benchmarking to identify, implement, and measure improvements.

Requirement ID
END-001-R010
Parent Control
END-001
Domain Code
END

Requirement Details & Guidance

END-001-R010 · END-001
Why This Requirement Exists

To ensure endpoint protection evolves in response to incidents, emerging threats, technology changes, and assurance results.

Implementation Guidance

Collect improvement inputs from reviews, incidents, validation, threat intelligence, metrics, and user feedback; prioritize initiatives by risk; measure outcomes after implementation.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

END-001-R010 · Field Guidance

Business Examples

    Common Audit Findings

      Common Mistakes

        Best Practices & Ownership

        END-001 · 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: 10.1 – Continual improvement
          ISO
          Standard
          		 v2022 View →
          RBI-CSF RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 13) Advanced Real-time Threat Defence and Management – 13.1 Defence against installation, spread and execution of malicious code at multiple points; 13) Advanced Real-time Threat Defence and Management – 13.2 Anti-malware/antivirus and behavioural detection across endpoints, servers, gateways and wireless/SMS, with central monitoring
          India
          Regulation
          		 vLatest View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 3.4 PR.IP: Information Protection Processes and Procedures
          India
          Regulation
          		 vLatest View →
          DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 9(2) – ICT security policies, procedures, protocols and tools for resilience and data security Article 10(1) – Mechanisms to promptly detect anomalous activities and ICT-related incidents
          EU
          Regulation
          		 vCurrent View →
          ISO27002 ISO/IEC 27002 ISO/IEC 27002 is a guidance standard containing a... Clause: 8.1 – User endpoint devices
          ISO
          Standard
          		 v2022 View →
          NIS2 NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(g) – Basic cyber hygiene practices and cybersecurity training
          EU
          Directive
          		 vCurrent View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 2.2.1 – Configuration standards are developed,; 2.2.6 – System security parameters are configured to
          PCI
          Standard
          		 v4 View →
          COBIT2019 COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.4 – Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) > DSS05 – Managed Security Services > DSS05.03 – Manage endpoint security.
          COBIT
          Governance Framework
          		 v2019 View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: ID.AM – Asset Management | ID.AM-08 – Systems, hardware, software, services, and data are managed throughout their life cycles PR.PS – Platform Security | PR.PS-02 – Software is maintained, replaced, and removed commensurate with risk
          NIST
          Framework
          		 v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.19 – SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY; SI-3 – MALICIOUS CODE PROTECTION, SI-7 – SOFTWARE, FIRMWARE, AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY, Firmware, And Information Integrity
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          		 vRev. 5 View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC5.3 – Control Activities – COSO Principle 12: The entity deploys control activities through policies that establish what is expected and in procedures that put policies into action. CC6.1 – Logical and Physical Access Controls – The entity implements logical access security software, infrastructure, and architectures over protected information assets to protect them from security events to meet the entity's objectives. 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. CC4.2 – Monitoring of Controls – COSO Principle 17: The entity evaluates and communicates internal control deficiencies in a timely manner to those parties responsible for taking corrective action, including senior management and the board of directors, as appropriate.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
          		 vLatest View →

          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          Endpoint Security (END)
          Purpose:
          To protect endpoint devices (laptops, servers, mobile) from threats.
          Scope:
          Enterprise
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          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          Endpoint Protection (END-001)
          Summary:
          Establishes comprehensive endpoint protection including malware prevention, threat detection, configuration, monitoring, validation, and exception management across enterprise devices.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain endpoint protection capabilities to prevent, detect, and mitigate malware and other endpoint threats across enterprise devices.
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