Control maintenance - Additional steps to take
While the bulk of control maintenance revolves around keeping your controls healthy, there are two additional actions you can perform to help keep your controls up-to-date.
Linking controls to requirements
Controls are the driving force behind a compliance framework's requirements—they exist to help your organization ensure that requirements are successfully met. When you use Hyperproof's illustrative controls, they are pre-linked to your compliance framework's requirements. You can always link more controls to a requirement or unlink a control from a requirement. In Hyperproof's assessment module, controls and requirements can be audited for attributes such as design, language, effectiveness, and reliability.
Since requirements are not editable in Hyperproof, controls can be used to customize requirements to better suit your organization's needs. You can change what you need, as well as document the criteria by which the requirement is met, directly in the control (provided that you have sufficient privileges in Hyperproof to do so).