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Monitoring Integrity and Coverage Standard

Monitoring tells an organization what is happening in its systems, and every downstream security and operational decision rests on the assumption that the monitoring is working. That assumption is rarely governed as a whole. Individual controls in this library detect adverse events in monitored systems, and a few already watch specific monitoring sources for silence: a critical log source that stops feeding the security-information and event-management platform, a telemetry platform required to observe its own loss. What the library has lacked is a single standard that governs the integrity and coverage of monitoring across every domain and failure mode, so that those scoped operational checks sit under one accountable, risk-governed frame and the gaps between them are closed.

Type
Standard
Version
0.0.5
Date
2026-09-20
Owner
Chief Information Security Officer
Approving authority
Governance Library Maintainer
Classification
Public
Confidentiality
Public
Category
Information Security
Review frequency
Annual and upon material threat, framework, or regulatory change
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Outline

  • 1. Purpose
  • 2. Scope
  • 3. Principles
  • 4. Ownership, inventory, and expected signals
  • 5. Monitoring-failure taxonomy
  • 6. Condition-to-incident transition
  • 7. Declared blind spots
  • 8. Absence-of-evidence discipline
  • 9. Detecting the failure of detection
  • 10. Incident handling for monitoring failure
  • 11. Testing and evidence
  • 12. Framework alignment
  • 13. Limitations

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