If a control objective has a child objective and you put an indicator on the child, will the compliance roll up to the parent?

[juliesutton]

I have a control objectives that are related to my policy that create a four layer deep relationship with other control objectives (using the parent-child) relationship.  If I check the compliance of the deepest level (Child objective level 4), does the compliance roll up thru the parent levels and show at the Level 1 objective?

Example

1. Parent Objective Level 1
2. 1. Child Objective Level 2
   2. 1. Child Objective Level 3
      2. 1. Child Objective Level 4

[Jan Spurlin · Accepted solution]

The short answer is yes.

Under Control Objectives you will have controls. The individual controls will be what gets marked as compliant or non-compliant. Those will roll up to the Control Objective. If that Control Objective has any parents it will roll up.  All the Control Objectives under a policy roll up compliance to the Policy.

Also, any citations that are related to the Control Objective have the compliance rolled up to it also.

And the citation compliance rolls up to the authority document.

One other note of interest - you have the ability to weight the controls.  By default all controls are weighted equally at 10, but customers have the opportunity to change this.

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