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Third-Party Resilience Monitoring

The organization shall monitor third-party resilience to ensure suppliers maintain adequate resilience capabilities. Monitoring shall include review of supplier resilience assessments, monitoring of supplier performance, and identification of supplier resilience issues, with results reported to relevant stakeholders.

Requirement ID
OPR-006-R004
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Requirement Details & Guidance

OPR-006-R004 · OPR-006
Why This Requirement Exists

This requirement exists to assess, monitor, plan for, report on, review, and improve resilience of critical third parties and supply-chain dependencies, with specific focus on third-party resilience monitoring, so that critical services remain resilient against disruption and decisions are accountable and traceable.

Implementation Guidance

Establish and document the process for third-party resilience monitoring. Define accountable owners, required inputs and outputs, assessment or approval criteria, review frequency, monitoring, reporting, exception handling, evidence requirements, and escalation paths. Apply the process consistently to critical services and their dependencies, and integrate it with risk management, business continuity, incident management, technology operations, and third-party management where relevant.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

OPR-006-R004 · Field Guidance

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        OPR-006 · Recommended Approach

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          Cross-Mapped Regulatory Frameworks

          Harmonized Control Mappings
          FRAMEWORK CODE FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS FAMILY / CATEGORY VERSION ACTION
          COBIT2019 COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.4 – Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) > DSS04 – Managed Continuity > DSS04.02 – Maintain business resilience. 4.4 – Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) > DSS04 – Managed Continuity > DSS04.01 – Define the business continuity policy, objectives and scope.
          COBIT
          Governance Framework
          v2019 View →
          DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 28(1) – General principles for ICT third-party risk management Article 29 – Preliminary assessment of ICT concentration risk at entity level
          EU
          Regulation
          vCurrent View →
          GDPR General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The General Data Protection Regulation is a bindin... Clause: Article 28(1) – Processor requirements; Article 32(2) – Risk-based security measures
          EU
          Regulation
          vCurrent View →
          HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA is a U.S. federal law supported by implement... Clause: § 164.308(b)(1)-(3) Business associate contracts and other arrangements
          US
          Law
          vCurrent View →
          IRDAI IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §2.14-3.1 – Vendor IS classification; §2.14-3.4 – Periodic assessment
          India
          Guideline
          vLatest View →
          ISO22301 ISO/IEC 22301 ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a Business Co... Clause: 4.2.1 – General; 6.1.1 – Determining risks and opportunities; 8.3.4 – Resource requirements
          ISO
          Standard
          v2019 View →
          ISO27001 ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 specifies auditable requirements for... Clause: 9.1 – Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
          ISO
          Standard
          v2022 View →
          ISO27002 ISO/IEC 27002 ISO/IEC 27002 is a guidance standard containing a... Clause: 5.22 – Monitoring, review and change management of supplier services
          ISO
          Standard
          v2022 View →
          NIS2 NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(d) – Supply chain security, including relationships with direct suppliers/service providers Article 21(3) – Supplier vulnerabilities, product/cybersecurity quality and secure development; critical supply-chain risk assessment results
          EU
          Directive
          vCurrent View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: PR.IR – Technology Infrastructure Resilience | PR.IR-03 – Mechanisms are implemented to achieve resilience requirements in normal and adverse situations
          NIST
          Framework
          v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.13 – PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, 3.6 – CONTINGENCY PLANNING; PM-9 – RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, CP-2 – CONTINGENCY PLAN
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          vRev. 5 View →
          NPCI-ISR NPCI Information Security Requirements NPCI information-security requirements define cont... Clause: Security Measures / Controls; Infrastructure – Resilience
          India
          Standard
          vLatest View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 12.8.3 – An established process is implemented for; 12.8.4 – A program is implemented to monitor TPSPs’; 12.8.5 – Information is maintained about which PCI
          PCI
          Standard
          v4 View →
          RBI-CSF RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 11) Vendor Risk Management – 11.1 Accountability for security risks in outsourced and partner arrangements; 11) Vendor Risk Management – 11.3 Due diligence, oversight and management of third-party vendors/service providers/partners; 19) Incident Response & Management – 19.5 Resilience capabilities and coordinated testing across interconnected systems, vendors and partners
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 1.6 GV.SC: Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC9.2 – Risk Mitigation – The entity assesses and manages risks associated with vendors and business partners. CC9.1 – Risk Mitigation – The entity identifies, selects, and develops risk mitigation activities for risks arising from potential business disruptions. CC7.2 – System Operations – The entity monitors system components and the operation of those components for anomalies that are indicative of malicious acts, natural disasters, and errors affecting the entity's ability to meet its objectives; anomalies are analyzed to determine whether they represent security events.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
          vLatest View →

          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          Operational Resilience (OPR)
          Purpose:
          To ensure the organization can withstand and adapt to operational disruptions.
          Scope:
          Enterprise

          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          Third-Party & Supply Chain Resilience (OPR-006)
          Summary:
          Establishes third-party resilience including criticality assessment, supply chain dependency assessment, resilience monitoring, disruption planning, contingency planning, reporting, review, exit planning, and continuous improvement.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain processes to assess, monitor, and improve the resilience of third-party service providers, suppliers, outsourced services, and supporting supply chain ecosystems.