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Assignment of Responsibility

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Assign responsibility for developing the configuration management process to organizational personnel that are not directly involved in system development.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

In the absence of dedicated configuration management teams assigned within organizations, system developers may be tasked with developing configuration management processes using personnel who are not directly involved in system development or system integration. This separation of duties ensures that organizations establish and maintain a sufficient degree of independence between the system development and integration processes and configuration management processes to facilitate quality control and more effective oversight.

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-9(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 responsibility for developing the configuration management process is assigned to organizational personnel who are not directly involved in system development.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; procedures addressing responsibilities for configuration management process development; configuration management plan; system security plan; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with responsibilities for configuration management process development; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-9 — see the CM-9(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

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CM-9(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
  • procedures addressing responsibilities for configuration management process development
  • configuration management plan

Other Records

  • other relevant documents or records