Specialized Assessments
LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Include as part of control assessments, [specialized assessment frequency], [one of: announced; unannounced], [one of: in-depth monitoring; security instrumentation; automated security test cases; vulnerability scanning; malicious user testing; insider threat assessment; performance and load testing; data leakage or data loss assessment; ].
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizations can conduct specialized assessments, including verification and validation, system monitoring, insider threat assessments, malicious user testing, and other forms of testing. These assessments can improve readiness by exercising organizational capabilities and indicating current levels of performance as a means of focusing actions to improve security and privacy. Organizations conduct specialized assessments in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines. Authorizing officials approve the assessment methods in coordination with the organizational risk executive function. Organizations can include vulnerabilities uncovered during assessments into vulnerability remediation processes. Specialized assessments can also be conducted early in the system development life cycle (e.g., during initial design, development, and unit testing).
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for CA-2(2) 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
Assessment Objectives
- frequency at which to include specialized assessments as part of the control assessment is defined;
- one of the following PARAMETER VALUES is selected: {announced; unannounced};
- one or more of the following PARAMETER VALUES is/are selected: {in-depth monitoring; security instrumentation; automated security test cases; vulnerability scanning; malicious user testing; insider threat assessment; performance and load testing; data leakage or data loss assessment; <CA-02(02)_ODP[04] other forms of assessment>};
- other forms of assessment are defined (if selected);
- <CA-02(02)_ODP[01] specialized assessment frequency> <CA-02(02)_ODP[02] SELECTED PARAMETER VALUE> <CA-02(02)_ODP[03] SELECTED PARAMETER VALUES> are included as part of control assessments.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy; procedures addressing control assessments; control assessment plan; control assessment report; control assessment evidence; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with control assessment responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting control assessment].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CA-2(2). 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.
Learn more about STIG/CCI integration →Evidence
Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy
- control assessment plan
- system security plan
- privacy plan
Testing
- Mechanisms supporting control assessment
Other Records
- procedures addressing control assessments
- control assessment report
- control assessment evidence
- other relevant documents or records