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SI-6(2) SI · System and Information Integrity

Automation Support for Distributed Testing

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Implement automated mechanisms to support the management of distributed security and privacy function testing.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

The use of automated mechanisms to support the management of distributed function testing helps to ensure the integrity, timeliness, completeness, and efficacy of such testing.

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 SI-6(2) 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. automated mechanisms are implemented to support the management of distributed security function testing;
  2. automated mechanisms are implemented to support the management of distributed privacy function testing.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing security and privacy function verification; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system audit records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with security and privacy function verification responsibilities; organizational personnel implementing, operating, and maintaining the system; system/network administrators; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for security and privacy function verification; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the management of distributed security and privacy testing].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control SI-6 — see the SI-6(2) 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

Not applicable at this tier.

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SI-6(2). 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 and information integrity policy
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Organizational processes for security and privacy function verification
  • automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the management of distributed security and privacy testing

Other Records

  • system and information integrity procedures
  • procedures addressing security and privacy function verification
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records