SCF National Cyber Parks - Situation Awareness Outlook (MON)

The Secure Controls Framework (SCF) is focused on security, compliance & resilience capabilities. 

Security + Compliance + Resilience is a unified objective. With this multi-discipline approach to cybersecurity and data protection, it signals that an organization isn’t just protected, but also meets its compliance requirements and can quickly bounce back from incidents.

The SCF is a framework and technology-agnostic approach to cybersecurity and data protection controls that can be used to identify, implement and manage secure, compliant and resilient capabilities that covers an organization’s People, Processes, Technologies, Data and Facilities (PPTDF).

As part of the SCF's cybersecurity awareness initiative, we created a National Cyber Park for each SCF domain. Of the SCF's thirty-three (33) domains, this article focuses on the Continuous Monitoring (MON) domain.

Continuous Monitoring (MON)

MON Domain Principle

Maintain situational awareness of security-related events through the centralized collection and analysis of event logs from systems, applications and services. 

MON Domain Intent

Organizations establish and maintain ongoing situational awareness across the enterprise through the centralized collection and review of security-related event logs. Without comprehensive visibility into infrastructure, operating system, database, application and other logs, the organization will have “blind spots” in its situational awareness that could lead to system compromise, data exfiltration, or unavailability of needed computing resources.

SCF National Cyber Parks

For fans of the SCF who want some free user awareness posters, you can access this master poster that has links to each of the SCF's National Cyber Parks.