OR-08 IT Operations & Resilience

System & Infrastructure Monitoring

Health of critical systems is observed.

Domain
IT Operations & Resilience
Control type
Detective
Automated / manual
Automated
Frequency
Continuous
Framework reference
COBIT DSS01; MAS TRM – Resilience

What good looks like

Availability/performance/utilisation monitored with alerting and dashboards.

Risk if it fails

Outages/degradation undetected.

How Tess tests it

3 tests — each concludes only on cited evidence.

Monitoring covers availability/perf/capacity

Design
Procedure
Inspect monitoring.
Expected
Critical systems covered.
Sample
1 (design inspection)
Evidence
Monitoring dashboards, alert configuration.

Alerts routed and actioned

Operating
Procedure
Sample alerts.
Expected
Responded to.
Sample
25 (or full config inspection)
Evidence
Monitoring dashboards, alert configuration.

Dashboards/thresholds maintained

Operating
Procedure
Inspect dashboards.
Expected
Current and meaningful.
Sample
25 (or full config inspection)
Evidence
Monitoring dashboards, alert configuration.

Evidence Tess looks for

Monitoring dashboards, alert configuration.

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