CIS v8 citations are children of Control Objectives instead of a Citation

Ana41
Tera Contributor

Hey all! As the title summarizes, I am trying to understand why CIS v8 citations are implemented like this OOTB. In the current instances I am working with, the CIS v8 authority document is already provided OOTB. We want to use its Control Objectives as a common layer between CIS v8 and NIS2, since there is some relevant overlap between the two documents.

 

While I was testing some options on how to achieve this, I noticed something weird: the top-level Citations for CIS v8 (Control 1 to Control 18) are NOT the parents of the corresponding sub-level Citations. For example, as shown in the screenshot, the citation "10.1 Deploy and (...)" is not a child of the citation "10 Malware Defenses". It's actually the child of the related control objective.

 

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So Citation 10 has its own control objective, but then Citation 10.1 also has its own control objective. I am struggling to understand the architecture here - why would it be implemented like this? What are the advantages in using a Control Objective as the parent of a Citation? Won't this also cause issues with the compliance score roll-up?

 

Thanks in advance for any tips regarding this!

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Tanushree Maiti
Kilo Patron

Hi @Ana41 

 

Refer this links:

Why we have control objective in citation 

Relate a control objective to a citation 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GYgHJZ4nOs

 

 

 

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