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Automated Access Enforcement and Audit Records

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations log system accesses associated with applying configuration changes to ensure that configuration change control is implemented and to support after-the-fact actions should organizations discover any unauthorized changes.

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-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. mechanisms used to automate the enforcement of access restrictions are defined;
  2. access restrictions for change are enforced using <CM-05(01)_ODP automated mechanisms>;
  3. audit records of enforcement actions are automatically generated.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; procedures addressing access restrictions for changes to the system; system design documentation; system architecture and configuration documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; change control records; system audit records; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with logical access control responsibilities; organizational personnel with physical access control responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for managing access restrictions to change; automated mechanisms implementing the enforcement of access restrictions for changes to the system; automated mechanisms supporting auditing of enforcement actions].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-5 — see the CM-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)
  • Included: (1)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CM-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

  • system security plan

Configuration

  • Configuration management policy
  • system design documentation
  • system architecture and configuration documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Organizational processes for managing access restrictions to change
  • automated mechanisms implementing the enforcement of access restrictions for changes to the system
  • automated mechanisms supporting auditing of enforcement actions

Other Records

  • procedures addressing access restrictions for changes to the system
  • change control records
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records