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Assessed Configurations and Approved Deviations

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Include assessed component configurations and any approved deviations to current deployed configurations in the system component inventory.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Assessed configurations and approved deviations focus on configuration settings established by organizations for system components, the specific components that have been assessed to determine compliance with the required configuration settings, and any approved deviations from established configuration settings.

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(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. assessed component configurations are included in the system component inventory;
  2. any approved deviations to current deployed configurations are included in the system component inventory.

Examine

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

Interview

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

Test

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

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-8 — see the CM-8(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

  • 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(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 component inventory
  • configuration management plan
  • system design documentation
  • system component inventory
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

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

Other Records

  • change control records
  • other relevant documents or records