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Permitted Actions

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Specify the permitted actions for each [one of: system process; role; user] associated with the review, analysis, and reporting of audit record information.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations specify permitted actions for system processes, roles, and users associated with the review, analysis, and reporting of audit records through system account management activities. Specifying permitted actions on audit record information is a way to enforce the principle of least privilege. Permitted actions are enforced by the system and include read, write, execute, append, and delete.

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-6(7) 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. one or more of the following PARAMETER VALUES is/are selected: {system process; role; user};
  2. the permitted actions for each <AU-06(07)_ODP SELECTED PARAMETER VALUES> associated with the review, analysis, and reporting of audit record information are specified.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Audit and accountability policy; procedures addressing process, role and/or user permitted actions from audit review, analysis, and reporting; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with audit review, analysis, and reporting responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting permitted actions for the review, analysis, and reporting of audit information].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control AU-6 — see the AU-6(7) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

Excluded — not selected in the OT baseline at this tier, though the standard SP 800-53 baseline includes the base control.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (3) (5) (6)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AU-6(7). 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

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting permitted actions for the review, analysis, and reporting of audit information

Other Records

  • procedures addressing process, role and/or user permitted actions from audit review, analysis, and reporting
  • other relevant documents or records