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Automated Change Implementation

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Implement changes to the current system baseline and deploy the updated baseline across the installed base using [automated mechanisms].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Automated tools can improve the accuracy, consistency, and availability of configuration baseline information. Automation can also provide data aggregation and data correlation capabilities, alerting mechanisms, and dashboards to support risk-based decision-making within the organization.

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 CM-3(3) 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. mechanisms used to automate the implementation of changes and deployment of the updated baseline across the installed base are defined;
  2. changes to the current system baseline are implemented using <CM-03(03)_ODP automated mechanisms>;
  3. the updated baseline is deployed across the installed base using <CM-03(03)_ODP automated mechanisms>.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; configuration management plan; procedures addressing system configuration change control; system design documentation; system architecture and configuration documentation; automated configuration control mechanisms; change control records; system component inventory; system audit records; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with configuration change control responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators; system developers; members of change control board or similar].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for configuration change control; automated mechanisms implementing changes to current system baseline].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-3 — see the CM-3(3) 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

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (2) (4)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (4) (6)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CM-3(3). 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

  • system security plan

Configuration

  • Configuration management policy
  • configuration management plan
  • procedures addressing system configuration change control
  • system design documentation
  • system architecture and configuration documentation
  • automated configuration control mechanisms
  • system component inventory

Testing

  • Organizational processes for configuration change control
  • automated mechanisms implementing changes to current system baseline

Other Records

  • change control records
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records