SI-7(2)

Requirement

Employ automated tools that provide notification to [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verification.

Discussion

The employment of automated tools to report system and information integrity violations and to notify organizational personnel in a timely matter is essential to effective risk response. Personnel with an interest in system and information integrity violations include mission and business owners, system owners, senior agency information security official, senior agency official for privacy, system administrators, software developers, systems integrators, information security officers, and privacy officers.

Title

Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity | Automated Notifications of Integrity Violations
Family

System and Information Integrity
NIST 800-53B Baseline(s)
- High

NIST 800-53A Assessment Guidance

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity; personally identifiable information processing policy; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; integrity verification tools and associated documentation; records of integrity scans; automated tools supporting alerts and notifications for integrity discrepancies; notifications provided upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verifications; system audit records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel responsible for software, firmware, and/or information integrity; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system administrators; software developers].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools; mechanisms providing integrity discrepancy notifications].

ID	Assessment Objectives
SI-07(02)	automated tools that provide notification to <SI-07(02)_ODP personnel or roles> upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verification are employed.

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