Risk Response
✓ LOW ✓ MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Respond to findings from security and privacy assessments, monitoring, and audits in accordance with organizational risk tolerance.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizations have many options for responding to risk including mitigating risk by implementing new controls or strengthening existing controls, accepting risk with appropriate justification or rationale, sharing or transferring risk, or avoiding risk. The risk tolerance of the organization influences risk response decisions and actions. Risk response addresses the need to determine an appropriate response to risk before generating a plan of action and milestones entry. For example, the response may be to accept risk or reject risk, or it may be possible to mitigate the risk immediately so that a plan of action and milestones entry is not needed. However, if the risk response is to mitigate the risk, and the mitigation cannot be completed immediately, a plan of action and milestones entry is generated.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for RA-7 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
Assessment Objectives
- findings from security assessments are responded to in accordance with organizational risk tolerance;
- findings from privacy assessments are responded to in accordance with organizational risk tolerance;
- findings from monitoring are responded to in accordance with organizational risk tolerance;
- findings from audits are responded to in accordance with organizational risk tolerance.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Risk assessment policy; assessment reports; audit records/event logs; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with assessment and auditing responsibilities; system/network administrators; organizational personnel with security and privacy responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for assessments and audits; mechanisms/tools supporting and/or implementing assessments and auditing].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for RA-7. 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
Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Risk assessment policy
- system security plan
- privacy plan
Testing
- Organizational processes for assessments and audits
- mechanisms/tools supporting and/or implementing assessments and auditing
Other Records
- assessment reports
- audit records/event logs
- other relevant documents or records