Connectivity context and expected condition
Connect the relevant users, systems, identities, services, information, dependencies, owners, expected state, and boundaries to the connectivity or security condition under review.
Signals and evaluation
Use approved information sources, records, observations, tests, or reviews to evaluate a condition. Identify what the evidence supports, what remains unknown, and whether escalation is warranted.
Findings and response coordination
Connect a condition to the accountable owner, scope, decision, service work, exception, remediation, communication path, and next review. A finding is not the same as a confirmed incident or a completed correction.
Validation and assurance records
Preserve the method, period, reviewer, result, limitation, exception, and next step needed to support a bounded conclusion. Evidence supports a decision for its stated scope and period. It does not prove a future state.
Improvement and change
Update coverage, ownership, procedures, records, training, and review priorities when systems, services, information, risks, or operating conditions change.