Controls · The evidence trail · Element
The accessibility
Whether the evidence can actually be produced when asked for.
The part
What it is
Evidence held in a system nobody can query, or by a person who has left, is evidence in principle only.
The practical test is whether a sample can be produced within a day, which is roughly what an inspection allows.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the evidence trail
The artefact
What is produced when the control operates.
LearnThe retention
How long the evidence must be kept, and where.
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