Automated Organization-generated Alerts
LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Alert [personnel or roles] using [automated mechanisms] when the following indications of inappropriate or unusual activities with security or privacy implications occur: [activities that trigger alerts].
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizational personnel on the system alert notification list include system administrators, mission or business owners, system owners, senior agency information security officer, senior agency official for privacy, system security officers, or privacy officers. Automated organization-generated alerts are the security alerts generated by organizations and transmitted using automated means. The sources for organization-generated alerts are focused on other entities such as suspicious activity reports and reports on potential insider threats. In contrast to alerts generated by the organization, alerts generated by the system in SI-4(5) focus on information sources that are internal to the systems, such as audit records.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for SI-4(12) 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
- personnel or roles to be alerted when indications of inappropriate or unusual activity with security or privacy implications occur is/are defined;
- automated mechanisms used to alert personnel or roles are defined;
- activities that trigger alerts to personnel or are defined;
- <SI-04(12)_ODP[01] personnel or roles> is/are alerted using <SI-04(12)_ODP[02] automated mechanisms> when <SI-04(12)_ODP[03] activities that trigger alerts> indicate inappropriate or unusual activities with security or privacy implications.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing system monitoring tools and techniques; system design documentation; system monitoring tools and techniques documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; list of inappropriate or unusual activities with security and privacy implications that trigger alerts; suspicious activity reports; alerts provided to security and privacy personnel; system monitoring logs or records; system audit records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: System/network administrators; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system developers; organizational personnel installing, configuring, and/or maintaining the system; organizational personnel responsible for monitoring the system; organizational personnel responsible for the intrusion detection system].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for intrusion detection and system monitoring; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing intrusion detection and system monitoring capabilities; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing automated alerts to security personnel].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SI-4(12). 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
- System and information integrity policy
- system security plan
- privacy plan
Configuration
- system design documentation
- system configuration settings and associated documentation
Testing
- Organizational processes for intrusion detection and system monitoring
- automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing intrusion detection and system monitoring capabilities
- automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing automated alerts to security personnel
Other Records
- system and information integrity procedures
- procedures addressing system monitoring tools and techniques
- system monitoring tools and techniques documentation
- list of inappropriate or unusual activities with security and privacy implications that trigger alerts
- suspicious activity reports
- alerts provided to security and privacy personnel
- system monitoring logs or records
- system audit records
- other relevant documents or records