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NIST 800-53 rev.5

NIST 800-53 rev.5/Program Management/577 of 1011

PM-31Continuous Monitoring Strategy

Control family: Program Management

Control description

Develop an organization-wide continuous monitoring strategy and implement continuous monitoring programs that include:

a. Establishing the following organization-wide metrics to be monitored: [Assignment: organization-defined metrics];

b. Establishing [Assignment: organization-defined monitoring frequencies] and [Assignment: organization-defined assessment frequencies] for control effectiveness;

c. Ongoing monitoring of organizationally-defined metrics in accordance with the continuous monitoring strategy;

d. Correlation and analysis of information generated by control assessments and monitoring;

e. Response actions to address results of the analysis of control assessment and monitoring information; and

f. Reporting the security and privacy status of organizational systems to [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] [Assignment: organization-defined frequency].

How to implement

Coming in phase 2Step-by-step guidance for implementing this control on Microsoft Azure, using services such as Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Entra ID. It will be matched to your environment.