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Use of Automated Tools

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Monitor open-source information and information sites using [automated mechanisms].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Automated mechanisms include commercial services that provide notifications and alerts to organizations and automated scripts to monitor new posts on websites.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for AU-13(1) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. automated mechanisms for monitoring open-source information and information sites are defined;
  2. open-source information and information sites are monitored using <AU-13(01)_ODP automated mechanisms>.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Audit and accountability policy; system security plan; privacy plan; procedures addressing information disclosure monitoring; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; automated monitoring tools; system audit records; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with responsibilities for monitoring information disclosures; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Automated mechanisms implementing monitoring for information disclosure].

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AU-13(1). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Audit and accountability policy
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Automated mechanisms implementing monitoring for information disclosure

Other Records

  • procedures addressing information disclosure monitoring
  • automated monitoring tools
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records