Integrated Situational Awareness
LOW MODERATE HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Correlate information from monitoring physical, cyber, and supply chain activities to achieve integrated, organization-wide situational awareness.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Correlating monitoring information from a more diverse set of information sources helps to achieve integrated situational awareness. Integrated situational awareness from a combination of physical, cyber, and supply chain monitoring activities enhances the capability of organizations to more quickly detect sophisticated attacks and investigate the methods and techniques employed to carry out such attacks. In contrast to SI-4(16) , which correlates the various cyber monitoring information, integrated situational awareness is intended to correlate monitoring beyond the cyber domain. Correlation of monitoring information from multiple activities may help reveal attacks on organizations that are operating across multiple attack vectors.
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(17) 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
- information from monitoring physical, cyber, and supply chain activities are correlated to achieve integrated, organization-wide situational awareness.
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; event correlation logs or records resulting from physical, cyber, and supply chain activities; system audit records; system security plan; supply chain risk management plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: System/network administrators; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; 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; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing intrusion detection and system monitoring capabilities; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the correlation of information from monitoring tools].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SI-4(17). 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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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
- supply chain risk management plan
Configuration
- system design documentation
- system configuration settings and associated documentation
Testing
- Organizational processes for intrusion detection and system monitoring
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing intrusion detection and system monitoring capabilities
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the correlation of information from monitoring tools
Other Records
- system and information integrity procedures
- procedures addressing system monitoring tools and techniques
- system monitoring tools and techniques documentation
- event correlation logs or records resulting from physical, cyber, and supply chain activities
- system audit records
- other relevant documents or records