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Updates During Installation and Removal

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Update the inventory of system components as part of component installations, removals, and system updates.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations can improve the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of system component inventories if the inventories are updated as part of component installations or removals or during general system updates. If inventories are not updated at these key times, there is a greater likelihood that the information will not be appropriately captured and documented. System updates include hardware, software, and firmware components.

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-8(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. the inventory of system components is updated as part of component installations;
  2. the inventory of system components is updated as part of component removals;
  3. the inventory of system components is updated as part of system updates.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; procedures addressing system component inventory; configuration management plan; system security plan; system component inventory; inventory reviews and update records; change control records; component installation records; component removal records; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with component inventory updating responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for updating the system component inventory; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing system component inventory updates].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-8 — see the CM-8(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)
  • Included: (1) (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (3) (4)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CM-8(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.

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 component inventory
  • configuration management plan
  • system component inventory
  • inventory reviews and update records

Testing

  • Organizational processes for updating the system component inventory
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing system component inventory updates

Other Records

  • change control records
  • component installation records
  • component removal records
  • other relevant documents or records