CCC Monitoring Controls
Controls for Monitoring technologies, as defined by the FINOS Common Cloud Controls project.
- ID
- CCC.Monitor.CN
- Version
- v2026.06-rc3
- Gemara version
- v1.2.0
- Author
- FINOS Common Cloud Controls
Observability
The Observability group covers entries related to logging, monitoring, metrics, alerting, and event publication. This includes audit trail integrity, enumeration detection, and protection against tampering or unauthorized access to operational telemetry.
CCC.Monitor.CN01 Rate Limiting on External Monitoring
Objective
Prevent DoS attacks using External Monitoring tools.
Assessment requirements
When an External Monitoring system exceeds the anticipated rate of monitoring checks then Rate Limiting MUST be applied and an Audit Alert MUST be generated.
Applicability: tlp-clear, tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red
Guidelines
- NIST-CSF
- PR.IR-01
- DE.CM-01
- NIST_800_53
- SC-5
- SC-7
Threats
- CCC.Monitor.Threats
- CCC.Monitor.TH03
CCC.Monitor.CN02 Rate Limiting on Metric Generation
Objective
Prevent Malicious Actor or misconfiguration from flooding services with metric data.
Assessment requirements
When an Custom or User-Defined Metric starts to flood a collector, then a rate limit MUST be applied to reduce the network impact of traffic and an alert must triggered.
Applicability: tlp-clear, tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red
Guidelines
- NIST-CSF
- DE.CM-01
- NIST_800_53
- SC-5(2)
- CA-7
- SI-4
Threats
- CCC.Monitor.Threats
- CCC.Monitor.TH06
Access Control
The Access Control group covers entries related to authentication, authorization, and trust perimeter enforcement. This includes multi-factor authentication, least privilege access, network access rules, and prevention of unauthorized access or reconnaissance.
CCC.Monitor.CN03 Access External Monitoring
Objective
Control access to Synthetic monitoring solutions using API keys or Certificate based authentication to ensure they don't become an attack path, preventing monitoring systems from forging network requests to gain access to internal systems.
Assessment requirements
When external systems have approved access to internal systems not normally available for public access then they MUST be secured to prevent unauthorised access jumping through to the internal systems and only allow access to specific internal services.
Applicability: tlp-clear, tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red
Guidelines
- NIST-CSF
- DE.CM-06
- PR.IR-01
- PR.AA-05
- NIST_800_53
- AC-3
Threats
- CCC.Monitor.Threats
- CCC.Monitor.TH04
CCC.Monitor.CN04 Restrict access to Monitoring Dashboards
Objective
Control access to Monitoring Dashboards and reports to ensure they don't highlight an attack path.
Assessment requirements
When monitoring dashboards display degraded services which may become potential targets then the dashboard MUST be protected from unauthorised access.
Applicability: tlp-clear, tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red
Guidelines
- NIST-CSF
- DE.CM-09
- DE.AE-03
- NIST_800_53
- SI-4
- AC-3
Threats
- CCC.Monitor.Threats
- CCC.Monitor.TH02
CCC.Monitor.CN05 Restrict access to silence or acknowledge an alert
Objective
Ensure only a subset of users can silence or acknowledge alerts to prevent attackers hiding their activity.
Assessment requirements
When monitoring services have generated an alert, the service MUST ensure only authorised responders silence or acknowledge the alert.
Applicability: tlp-clear, tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red
Guidelines
- NIST-CSF
- PR.IR-01
- PR.AA-05
- NIST_800_53
- AC-3
Threats
- CCC.Core.Threats
- CCC.Core.TH10
CCC.Monitor.CN06 Metrics pushed for authorised services only
Objective
Use IAM to control which types of metrics or traces can be pushed by different system to avoid a compromised system pushing fabricated metrics about a different service
Assessment requirements
When systems push metrics or traces they MUST be authenticated for that particular type of metric or trace
Applicability: tlp-clear, tlp-green, tlp-amber, tlp-red
Guidelines
- NIST-CSF
- PR.AA-05
- NIST_800_53
- AC-5
Threats
- CCC.Monitor.Threats
- CCC.Monitor.TH05