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CA-5(1) CA · Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring

Automation Support for Accuracy and Currency

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Ensure the accuracy, currency, and availability of the plan of action and milestones for the system using [automated mechanisms].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Using automated tools helps maintain the accuracy, currency, and availability of the plan of action and milestones and facilitates the coordination and sharing of security and privacy information throughout the organization. Such coordination and information sharing help to identify systemic weaknesses or deficiencies in organizational systems and ensure that appropriate resources are directed at the most critical system vulnerabilities in a timely manner.

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 CA-5(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 used to ensure the accuracy, currency, and availability of the plan of action and milestones for the system are defined;
  2. <CA-05(01)_ODP automated mechanisms> are used to ensure the accuracy, currency, and availability of the plan of action and milestones for the system.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy; procedures addressing plan of action and milestones; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system audit records; plan of action and milestones; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with plan of action and milestones development and implementation responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Automated mechanisms for developing, implementing, and maintaining a plan of action and milestones].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CA-5 — see the CA-5(1) 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

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CA-5(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

  • Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy
  • procedures addressing plan of action and milestones
  • plan of action and milestones
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Automated mechanisms for developing, implementing, and maintaining a plan of action and milestones

Other Records

  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records