SI-4(12)

Requirement

Alert [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] using [Assignment: organization-defined automated mechanisms] when the following indications of inappropriate or unusual activities with security or privacy implications occur: [Assignment: organization-defined activities that trigger alerts].

Discussion

Organizational personnel on the system alert notification list include system administrators, mission or business owners, system owners, senior agency information security officer, senior agency official for privacy, system security officers, or privacy officers. Automated organization-generated alerts are the security alerts generated by organizations and transmitted using automated means. The sources for organization-generated alerts are focused on other entities such as suspicious activity reports and reports on potential insider threats. In contrast to alerts generated by the organization, alerts generated by the system in SI-4(5) focus on information sources that are internal to the systems, such as audit records.

NIST 800-53A Assessment Guidance

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing system monitoring tools and techniques; system design documentation; system monitoring tools and techniques documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; list of inappropriate or unusual activities with security and privacy implications that trigger alerts; suspicious activity reports; alerts provided to security and privacy personnel; system monitoring logs or records; system audit records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: System/network administrators; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system developers; organizational personnel installing, configuring, and/or maintaining the system; organizational personnel responsible for monitoring the system; organizational personnel responsible for the intrusion detection system].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for intrusion detection and system monitoring; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing intrusion detection and system monitoring capabilities; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing automated alerts to security personnel].

ID	Assessment Objectives
SI-04(12)	<SI-04(12)_ODP[01] personnel or roles> is/are alerted using <SI-04(12)_ODP[02] automated mechanisms> when <SI-04(12)_ODP[03] activities that trigger alerts> indicate inappropriate or unusual activities with security or privacy implications.

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