CAIQ-Lite questionnaire
Scope
This page summarizes our own assessment regarding the CAIQ-Lite questionnaire.
Please note that due to the size of our company (3 part-time employees) this questionnaire might not be as detailed as for other companies.
Details
Section Heading | Control Heading | Original ID | Question Text | Answer | Notes/Comment |
Application & Interface Security | Application Security | AIS-01.2 | Do you use an automated source code analysis tool to detect security defects in code prior to production? | Yes | We use Synk |
AIS-01.5 | (SaaS only) Do you review your applications for security vulnerabilities and address any issues prior to deployment to production? | Yes | See above | ||
Customer Access Requirements | AIS-02.1 | Are all identified security, contractual, and regulatory requirements for customer access contractually addressed and remediated prior to granting customers access to data, assets, and information systems? | N/A | We don’t grant other parties access to our data or date of our our customers | |
Data Integrity | AIS-03.1 | Does your data management policies and procedures require audits to verify data input and output integrity routines? | Yes | Please refer to our Cybersecurity Policy | |
Audit Assurance & Compliance | Independent Audits | AAC-02.1 | Do you allow tenants to view your SOC2/ISO 27001 or similar third-party audit or certification reports? | No | We are not certified |
AAC-02.2 | Do you conduct network penetration tests of your cloud service infrastructure at least annually? | Yes | As indicated in the Cybersecurity Policy we used managed services from Heroku and AWS - our apps behind Load Balancer or a front-end server managed by Heroku or AWS. This makes findings during a network scan unlikely. Anyhow we conduct a yearly network scan for all cloud apps annually. | ||
AAC-02.3 | Do you conduct application penetration tests of your cloud infrastructure regularly as prescribed by industry best practices and guidance? | Partly | Apps indicated as “Cloud Security Participant” have undergone a full blown external penetration test which is repeated in case of significant changes. Apps not indicated as “Cloud Security Participant” undergo internal penetration tests and are covered by the static code analysis. | ||
Information System Regulatory Mapping | AAC-03.1 | Do you have a program in place that includes the ability to monitor changes to the regulatory requirements in relevant jurisdictions, adjust your security program for changes to legal requirements, and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements? | Yes | We monitor relevant sources including The Atlassian Developer Community, Heise etc. | |
Business Continuity Management & Operational Resilience | Business Continuity Testing | BCR-02.1 | Are business continuity plans subject to testing at planned intervals or upon significant organizational or environmental changes to ensure continuing effectiveness? | N/A | Due to the size of company this questions must currently be answered as N/A. |
Policy | BCR-10.1 | Are policies and procedures established and made available for all personnel to adequately support services operations’ roles? | Yes | All employees have access to the relevant resources. | |
Retention Policy | BCR-11.1 | Do you have technical capabilities to enforce tenant data retention policies? | Yes | The only data which should be kept is installation data. We don’t keep any other data than that. Even if the installation would be lost the only effect would be that customers must reinstall the affected app. | |
BCR-11.3 | Have you implemented backup or recovery mechanisms to ensure compliance with regulatory, statutory, contractual or business requirements? | Yes | See above | ||
BCR-11.7 | Do you test your backup or redundancy mechanisms at least annually? | Yes | See above | ||
Change Control & Configuration Management | Unauthorized Software Installations | CCC-04.1 | Do you have controls in place to restrict and monitor the installation of unauthorized software onto your systems? | Yes | Â |
Data Security & Information Lifecycle Management | E-commerce Transactions | DSI-03.1 | Do you provide standardized (e.g. ISO/IEC) non-proprietary encryption algorithms (3DES, AES, etc.) to tenants in order for them to protect their data if it is required to move through public networks (e.g., the Internet)? | N/A | We don’t perform any E-commerce transactions. However, all relevant communication is protected. |
DSI-03.2 | Do you utilize open encryption methodologies any time your infrastructure components need to communicate with each other via public networks (e.g., Internet-based replication of data from one environment to another)? | N/A | See above | ||
Nonproduction Data | DSI-05.1 | Do you have procedures in place to ensure production data shall not be replicated or used in non-production environments? | Yes | Our systems are totally separated | |
Secure Disposal | DSI-07.1 | Do you support the secure deletion (e.g., degaussing/cryptographic wiping) of archived and backed-up data? | N/A | We do not archive any data. Once date is not needed anymore it is deleted. | |
DSI-07.2 | Can you provide a published procedure for exiting the service arrangement, including assurance to sanitize all computing resources of tenant data once a customer has exited your environment or has vacated a resource? | Yes | Please refer to the Privacy Policy | ||
Datacenter Security | Asset Management | DCS-01.2 | Do you maintain a complete inventory of all of your critical assets located at all sites/ or geographical locations and their assigned ownership? | Yes | Data Assets (internal only) |
Controlled Access Points | DCS-02.1 | Are physical security perimeters (e.g., fences, walls, barriers, guards, gates, electronic surveillance, physical authentication mechanisms, reception desks, and security patrols) implemented for all areas housing sensitive data and information systems? | N/A | Due to the size of company this questions must currently be answered as N/A. | |
User Access | DCS-09.1 | Do you restrict physical access to information assets and functions by users and support personnel? | Yes | Data Assets (internal only) | |
Encryption & Key Management | Key Generation | EKM-02.1 | Do you have a capability to allow creation of unique encryption keys per tenant? | N/A | We don’t store any data on our systems except access data which currently don’t allow unique encryption keys |
Encryption | EKM-03.1 | Do you encrypt tenant data at rest (on disk/storage) within your environment? | N/A | See above | |
Governance and Risk Management | Baseline Requirements | GRM-01.1 | Do you have documented information security baselines for every component of your infrastructure (e.g., hypervisors, operating systems, routers, DNS servers, etc.)? | Partly | Please refer to our Cybersecurity Policy |
Policy | GRM-06.1 | Are your information security policies and procedures made available to all impacted personnel and business partners, authorized by accountable business role/function and supported by the information security management program as per industry best practices (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2)? | Yes | Please refer to our Cybersecurity Policy | |
Policy Enforcement | GRM-07.1 | Is a formal disciplinary or sanction policy established for employees who have violated security policies and procedures? | N/A | Due to the size of company this questions must currently be answered as N/A. | |
Policy Reviews | GRM-09.1 | Do you notify your tenants when you make material changes to your information security and/or privacy policies? | No | Â | |
GRM-09.2 | Do you perform, at minimum, annual reviews to your privacy and security policies? | Yes | Â | ||
Human Resources | Asset Returns | HRS-01.1 | Upon termination of contract or business relationship, are employees and business partners adequately informed of their obligations for returning organizationally-owned assets? | Yes | Â |
Background Screening | HRS-02.1 | Pursuant to local laws, regulations, ethics, and contractual constraints, are all employment candidates, contractors, and involved third parties subject to background verification? | No | Due to the size of the company | |
Employment Agreements | HRS-03.1 | Do your employment agreements incorporate provisions and/or terms in adherence to established information governance and security policies? | Yes | Â | |
Employment Termination | HRS-04.1 | Are documented policies, procedures, and guidelines in place to govern change in employment and/or termination? | No | Due to the size of the company | |
Training / Awareness | HRS-09.5 | Are personnel trained and provided with awareness programs at least once a year? | Yes | Done during the cybersecurity audit | |
Identity & Access Management | Audit Tools Access | IAM-01.1 | Do you restrict, log, and monitor access to your information security management systems (e.g., hypervisors, firewalls, vulnerability scanners, network sniffers, APIs, etc.)? | Yes | Â |
IAM-01.2 | Do you monitor and log privileged access (e.g., administrator level) to information security management systems? | No | Due to the size of the company | ||
User Access Policy | IAM-02.1 | Do you have controls in place ensuring timely removal of systems access that is no longer required for business purposes? | Yes | Â | |
Policies and Procedures | IAM-04.1 | Do you manage and store the identity of all personnel who have access to the IT infrastructure, including their level of access? | Yes | Â | |
Source Code Access Restriction | IAM-06.1 | Are controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to your application, program, or object source code, and assure it is restricted to authorized personnel only? | Partly | Most of our apps are open source | |
IAM-06.2 | Are controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to tenant application, program, or object source code, and assure it is restricted to authorized personnel only? | Partly | Most of our apps are open source | ||
User Access Restriction / Authorization | IAM-08.1 | Do you document how you grant, approve and enforce access restrictions to tenant/customer credentials following the rules of least privilege? | Yes | Due to the size of the company all employees have access. | |
User Access Reviews | IAM-10.1 | Do you require a periodical authorization and validation (e.g. at least annually) of the entitlements for all system users and administrators (exclusive of users maintained by your tenants), based on the rule of least privilege, by business leadership or other accountable business role or function? | Yes | See above | |
User Access Revocation | IAM-11.1 | Is timely deprovisioning, revocation, or modification of user access to the organizations systems, information assets, and data implemented upon any change in status of employees, contractors, customers, business partners, or involved third parties? | Yes | Â | |
Infrastructure & Virtualization Security | Audit Logging / Intrusion Detection | IVS-01.1 | Are file integrity (host) and network intrusion detection (IDS) tools implemented to help facilitate timely detection, investigation by root cause analysis, and response to incidents? | Yes | Provided by AWS and/or Heroku |
IVS-01.2 | Is physical and logical user access to audit logs restricted to authorized personnel? | Yes | Â | ||
IVS-01.5 | Are audit logs reviewed on a regular basis for security events (e.g., with automated tools)? | Yes | Â | ||
Clock Synchronization | IVS-03.1 | Do you use a synchronized time-service protocol (e.g., NTP) to ensure all systems have a common time reference? | Yes | Â | |
OS Hardening and Base Controls | IVS-07.1 | Are operating systems hardened to provide only the necessary ports, protocols, and services to meet business needs using technical controls (e.g., antivirus, file integrity monitoring, and logging) as part of their baseline build standard or template? | Yes | Â | |
Production / Non-Production Environments | IVS-08.1 | For your SaaS or PaaS offering, do you provide tenants with separate environments for production and test processes? | Yes | Â | |
IVS-08.3 | Do you logically and physically segregate production and non-production environments? | Yes | Â | ||
Segmentation | IVS-09.1 | Are system and network environments protected by a firewall or virtual firewall to ensure business and customer security requirements? | Yes | Â | |
VMM Security - Hypervisor Hardening | IVS-11.1 | Do you restrict personnel access to all hypervisor management functions or administrative consoles for systems hosting virtualized systems based on the principle of least privilege and supported through technical controls (e.g., two-factor authentication, audit trails, IP address filtering, firewalls and TLS-encapsulated communications to the administrative consoles)? | N/A | No such systems operated by us | |
Wireless Security | IVS-12.1 | Are policies and procedures established and mechanisms configured and implemented to protect the wireless network environment perimeter and to restrict unauthorized wireless traffic? | Yes | Â | |
IVS-12.2 | Are policies and procedures established and mechanisms implemented to ensure wireless security settings are enabled with strong encryption for authentication and transmission, replacing vendor default settings (e.g., encryption keys, passwords, SNMP community strings)? | Yes | Â | ||
IVS-12.3 | Are policies and procedures established and mechanisms implemented to protect wireless network environments and detect the presence of unauthorized (rogue) network devices for a timely disconnect from the network? | No | Â | ||
Interoperability & Portability | APIs | IPY-01.1 | Do you publish a list of all APIs available in the service and indicate which are standard and which are customized? | Partly | Our cloud apps don’t offer an API; the API of Server and DC apps is published in the documentation |
Mobile Security | Approved Applications | MOS-03.1 | Do you have a policy enforcement capability (e.g., XACML) to ensure that only approved applications and those from approved application stores can be loaded onto a mobile device? | N/A | Â |
Security Incident Management, E-Discovery, & Cloud Forensics | Incident Management | SEF-02.1 | Do you have a documented security incident response plan? | Yes | Please refer to our Cybersecurity Policy |
SEF-02.4 | Have you tested your security incident response plans in the last year? | Yes | Â | ||
Incident Reporting | SEF-03.1 | Are workforce personnel and external business relationships adequately informed of their responsibility, and, if required, consent and/or contractually required to report all information security events in a timely manner? | Yes | Â | |
SEF-03.2 | Do you have predefined communication channels for workforce personnel and external business partners to report incidents in a timely manner adhering to applicable legal, statutory, or regulatory compliance obligations? | Yes | Â | ||
Incident Response Legal Preparation | SEF-04.4 | Do you enforce and attest to tenant data separation when producing data in response to legal subpoenas? | Yes | Â | |
Supply Chain Management, Transparency, and Accountability | Incident Reporting | STA-02.1 | Do you make security incident information available to all affected customers and providers periodically through electronic methods (e.g., portals)? | Yes | Â |
Network / Infrastructure Services | STA-03.1 | Do you collect capacity and use data for all relevant components of your cloud service offering? | Yes | Â | |
Third Party Agreements | STA-05.4 | Do third-party agreements include provision for the security and protection of information and assets? | N/A | Â | |
STA-05.5 | Do you have the capability to recover data for a specific customer in the case of a failure or data loss? | Yes | Remark: we only store connection details; all other data is stored within the host application | ||
Supply Chain Metrics | STA-07.4 | Do you provide tenants with ongoing visibility and reporting of your operational Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance? | No | We maintain our service levels but do not publish details. | |
Third Party Audits | STA-09.1 | Do you mandate annual information security reviews and audits of your third party providers to ensure that all agreed upon security requirements are met? | No | Apart from AWS and Heroku (+ logging services) we don’t have any third-partly providers | |
Threat and Vulnerability Management | Antivirus / Malicious Software | TVM-01.1 | Do you have anti-malware programs that support or connect to your cloud service offerings installed on all of your IT infrastructure network and systems components? | Yes | Â |
Vulnerability / Patch Management | TVM-02.5 | Do you have a capability to patch vulnerabilities across all of your computing devices, applications, and systems? | Yes | Â | |
Mobile Code | TVM-03.1 | Is mobile code authorized before its installation and use, and the code configuration checked, to ensure that the authorized mobile code operates according to a clearly defined security policy? | Yes | Â |