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Cryptography Management

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Ensure that cryptographic mechanisms used to provide the following controls are under configuration management: [controls].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

The controls referenced in the control enhancement refer to security and privacy controls from the control catalog. Regardless of the cryptographic mechanisms employed, processes and procedures are in place to manage those mechanisms. For example, if system components use certificates for identification and authentication, a process is implemented to address the expiration of those certificates.

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(6) 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. controls provided by cryptographic mechanisms that are to be under configuration management are defined;
  2. cryptographic mechanisms used to provide <CM-03(06)_ODP controls> are under configuration management.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; procedures addressing system configuration change control; configuration management plan; system design documentation; system architecture and configuration documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; 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; cryptographic mechanisms implementing organizational security safeguards (controls)].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-3 — see the CM-3(6) 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(6). 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

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
  • procedures addressing system configuration change control
  • configuration management plan
  • system design documentation
  • system architecture and configuration documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Organizational processes for configuration change control
  • cryptographic mechanisms implementing organizational security safeguards (controls)

Other Records

  • other relevant documents or records