Monitoring System Components
Description
The entity monitors system components and their operation for anomalies and indicators of compromise.
⚠️ Risk Impact
Without monitoring, security incidents go undetected, increasing dwell time and damage.
🔧 Remediation
Enable audit logging, flow logs, and security monitoring. EchelonGraph provides centralized monitoring across all cloud accounts.
💀 Real-World Attack Scenario
A company had CloudTrail enabled but no alerting or monitoring on the logs. An attacker compromised an IAM user and created new access keys, modified S3 bucket policies, and exfiltrated data — all logged in CloudTrail but never reviewed. The breach was discovered 8 months later when a customer found their data on a dark web forum.
💰 Cost of Non-Compliance
Collecting logs without monitoring = 0% security value. Average dwell time without monitoring: 277 days. With active monitoring: 23 days. Cost differential: $2.7M per breach.
📋 Audit Questions
- 1.What systems are monitored for anomalies?
- 2.What is your alert triage and escalation process?
- 3.Show evidence of security monitoring dashboards.
- 4.What is the mean-time-to-detect for security incidents?
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
⚡ Common Pitfalls
- ⛔Collecting logs but not analyzing them (checkbox compliance)
- ⛔Alert fatigue from uncurated alert rules
- ⛔No on-call rotation or escalation process for security alerts
📈 Business Value
Active monitoring with alerting reduces breach cost by 60% and dwell time by 91%. It transforms log collection from a compliance checkbox into actual security value.
⏱️ Effort Estimate
40-80 hours to set up comprehensive monitoring and alerting
EchelonGraph provides unified security monitoring across all cloud providers
🔗 Cross-Framework References
Automate SOC 2 CC7.2 compliance
EchelonGraph continuously monitors this control across all your cloud accounts.
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