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Risk Monitoring

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Ensure risk monitoring is an integral part of the continuous monitoring strategy that includes the following:

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Risk monitoring is informed by the established organizational risk tolerance. Effectiveness monitoring determines the ongoing effectiveness of the implemented risk response measures. Compliance monitoring verifies that required risk response measures are implemented. It also verifies that security and privacy requirements are satisfied. Change monitoring identifies changes to organizational systems and environments of operation that may affect security and privacy risk.

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-7(4) 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. risk monitoring is an integral part of the continuous monitoring strategy;
  2. effectiveness monitoring is included in risk monitoring;
  3. compliance monitoring is included in risk monitoring;
  4. change monitoring is included in risk monitoring.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy; organizational continuous monitoring strategy; system-level continuous monitoring strategy; procedures addressing continuous monitoring of system controls; assessment report; plan of action and milestones; system monitoring records; impact analyses; status reports; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

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

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting risk monitoring].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CA-7 — see the CA-7(4) 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)
  • Included: (4)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (4)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (4)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CA-7(4). 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
  • organizational continuous monitoring strategy
  • system-level continuous monitoring strategy
  • plan of action and milestones
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting risk monitoring

Other Records

  • procedures addressing continuous monitoring of system controls
  • assessment report
  • system monitoring records
  • impact analyses
  • status reports
  • other relevant documents or records