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Across the 21 assessments a SIEM can support, Acme's evidence fully supports 10 and partially supports 7. Detection, SOC performance and log-based compliance evidence are strong: critical feeds ran continuously for the whole window and median time to detect was 11 minutes.
Three issues matter most. Fourteen licensed users have no MFA registration, which affects identity, insurance and regulatory readiness at once. There is no vulnerability scanner integration, so vulnerability and due-diligence views are incomplete. And 6 third-party applications hold high-privilege Microsoft 365 consents that nobody has reviewed. Policy and procedure controls need client documentation; the SIEM cannot evidence them.
14 licensed users lack MFA and Global Administrators exceed baseline by 5.
Fix: Enforce MFA via Conditional Access; reduce Global Admins to 4.
Raised by: C5 Identity & access review; B4 Cyber-insurance readiness; A1 Regulatory audit readiness
NIST: IA-2(1)AC-6
Vulnerability posture relies on EDR OS data only; 31 endpoints run end-of-life OS.
Fix: Integrate the scanner feed and replace EOL systems.
Raised by: C1 Vulnerability assessment; B5 M&A / investor due diligence readiness
NIST: RA-5SI-2
6 apps hold tenant-wide Microsoft 365 consents.
Fix: Review and revoke unneeded consents.
Raised by: B3 Third-party & vendor risk; C6 Cloud & SaaS security posture
NIST: SA-9AC-20
Evidence status shows how well SIEM evidence supports each assessment. Finding severity shows the most serious issue that evidence revealed. The two are independent: a fully supported assessment can still surface a high-severity finding.
| Assessment | Evidence | Finding | NIST 800-53 | Headline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A · Compliance & Regulatory | ||||
| A1 Regulatory audit readiness | Supported | medium | AU-2AU-6AU-11 +2 | 9 of 11 AU-family controls supported by live evidence |
| A2 Control framework assessment | Partial | medium | ACAUIA +3 | 41 of 88 assessed controls supported, 27 partial, 20 not observed |
| A3 Attestation audit readiness | Supported | low | CA-7AU-6AU-11 +1 | All critical feeds continuous for 30 of 30 days |
| A4 Data retention & privacy impact | Partial | low | AU-11SI-12PT-2 | Routing destinations documented for 6 of 7 data flows |
| B · Risk & Posture | ||||
| B1 Enterprise / cyber risk assessment | Supported | medium | RA-3PM-9 | 47 cases in the window, 5 high severity |
| B2 Security maturity & posture | Supported | medium | PM-6CA-7SI-4 | 24/7 monitoring evidenced; hygiene findings open in identity and email |
| B3 Third-party & vendor risk | Partial | high | SR-6SA-9AC-20 | 6 third-party apps hold high-privilege Microsoft 365 consents |
| B4 Cyber-insurance readiness | Partial | high | IA-2(1)SI-3SI-4 +1 | MFA registered for 93% of licensed users (14 without) |
| B5 M&A / investor due diligence readiness | SIEM-limited | medium | RA-3CA-2CM-8 | No confirmed breach in the window; vulnerability view incomplete |
| C · Technical & Operational | ||||
| C1 Vulnerability assessment | Partial | high | RA-5SI-2 | No vulnerability scanner integrated |
| C2 Pen test / red-team detection readiness | SIEM-limited | medium | CA-8SI-4 | Detection rules cover 4 of 5 common pen-test tactics; exfiltration has 1 rule |
| C3 Detection coverage (MITRE ATT&CK) | Supported | medium | SI-4AU-6CA-7 | Rules map to 11 of 14 ATT&CK tactics |
| C4 Log source & collection coverage | Supported | low | AU-2AU-12SI-4 | 7 of 7 source categories present; 0 broken feeds at report time |
| C5 Identity & access review | Supported | high | AC-2AC-6IA-2(1) | 14 licensed users without MFA |
| C6 Cloud & SaaS security posture | Partial | medium | CM-6AC-3SA-9 | Assessment covers Microsoft 365 only; no AWS or Azure subscription logs |
| C7 Insider threat assessment | Supported | low | PM-12AU-6 | 3 repeat actors, all administrators performing expected work |
| D · Incident Response & SOC | ||||
| D1 Incident response readiness | Partial | medium | IR-4IR-6IR-8 | Alert-to-case flow evidenced; IR plan and tabletop records not supplied |
| D2 SOC performance & KPIs | Supported | info | IR-4SI-4 | Median MTTD 11 minutes, MTTR 3.2 hours, backlog 2 |
| D3 Forensic & post-incident readiness | Supported | low | AU-9AU-11 | Continuous history for all critical sources except one 4-hour firewall gap |
| D4 Threat assessment & hunting | Not observed | info | RA-10SI-5 | Fingerprint cache not built for this tenant; hunting view not collected |
| E · Business Resilience | ||||
| E1 BIA & business continuity / DR | SIEM-limited | info | CP-2RA-9CM-8 | 412 assets inventoried; BIA and RTO/RPO records not supplied |
Per-family status from the live NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 assessment of this tenant.
Every action from the roadmap, ranked by priority and leverage. An action that improves several assessments at once ranks above a narrower one in the same time horizon.
| # | Action & expected outcome | Horizon | Owner | Assessments improved | NIST 800-53 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enforce MFA for the 14 unregistered users and cut Global Admins to 4. Closes the top corroborated risk; lifts identity, insurance and regulatory readiness. | 0-30 days | Client IT - Identity team | C5 Identity & access review; B4 Cyber-insurance readiness | IA-2(1)AC-6AC-2(3) |
| 2 | Review and revoke the 6 high-privilege third-party app consents. Removes tenant-wide access held by unreviewed vendors. | 0-30 days | Client IT - M365 admin | B3 Third-party & vendor risk | SA-9AC-20 |
| 3 | Integrate the vulnerability scanner feed. Moves vulnerability assessment from partial to supported. | 30-90 days | Ingext onboarding + client security | C1 Vulnerability assessment; B5 M&A / investor due diligence readiness | RA-5SI-2 |
| 4 | Move DMARC from p=none to quarantine. Blocks spoofed mail and improves the insurance email-security answer. | 30-90 days | Client IT - Messaging | B4 Cyber-insurance readiness | SI-8 |
| 5 | Onboard Azure activity logs and supply policy documents for not-observed controls. Extends cloud coverage beyond M365 and resolves policy-only gaps. | 90+ days | Ingext onboarding + client GRC | C6 Cloud & SaaS security posture; A2 Control framework assessment | CM-6AU-2AC-1 |
Scope. One tenant (Acme Inc), evidence window 29 Aug 2026 - 28 Sep 2026, compliance period 2026-08. All 21 SIEM-supported assessments were evaluated; none were omitted.
Rating. Evidence status (Supported, Partial, SIEM-limited, Not observed) measures how well SIEM evidence supports each assessment. Finding severity measures the most serious issue that evidence revealed. The readiness score weights Supported as 1, Partial and SIEM-limited as 0.5, and Not observed as 0, averaged over all 21 assessments. Not observed means evidence was not collected in this run; it is not a failed control.
Privacy. Individual users, mailboxes, hosts and case identifiers were reduced to counts before reporting.
Tools used. assess_compliance_posture, evaluate_data_sources, audit_office365_users, summarize_case_metrics
Collection notes.
Limitations.
Non-live evidence. D4 (local_cache)