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SI-7(2) SI · System and Information Integrity

Automated Notifications of Integrity Violations

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Employ automated tools that provide notification to [personnel or roles] upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verification.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

The employment of automated tools to report system and information integrity violations and to notify organizational personnel in a timely matter is essential to effective risk response. Personnel with an interest in system and information integrity violations include mission and business owners, system owners, senior agency information security official, senior agency official for privacy, system administrators, software developers, systems integrators, information security officers, and privacy officers.

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-7(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. personnel or roles to whom notification is to be provided upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verification is/are defined;
  2. automated tools that provide notification to <SI-07(02)_ODP personnel or roles> upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verification are employed.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity; personally identifiable information processing policy; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; integrity verification tools and associated documentation; records of integrity scans; automated tools supporting alerts and notifications for integrity discrepancies; notifications provided upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verifications; system audit records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel responsible for software, firmware, and/or information integrity; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system administrators; software developers].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools; mechanisms providing integrity discrepancy notifications].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control SI-7 — see the SI-7(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

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (7)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (5) (7) (15)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SI-7(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
  • personally identifiable information processing policy
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools
  • mechanisms providing integrity discrepancy notifications

Other Records

  • system and information integrity procedures
  • procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity
  • integrity verification tools and associated documentation
  • records of integrity scans
  • automated tools supporting alerts and notifications for integrity discrepancies
  • notifications provided upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verifications
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records