Automated Response to Integrity Violations
LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Automatically [one of: shut down the system; restart the system; implement] when integrity violations are discovered.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizations may define different integrity-checking responses by type of information, specific information, or a combination of both. Types of information include firmware, software, and user data. Specific information includes boot firmware for certain types of machines. The automatic implementation of controls within organizational systems includes reversing the changes, halting the system, or triggering audit alerts when unauthorized modifications to critical security files occur.
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-7(5) 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
- one or more of the following PARAMETER VALUES is/are selected: {shut down the system; restart the system; implement <SI-07(05)_ODP[02] controls>};
- controls to be implemented automatically when integrity violations are discovered are defined (if selected);
- <SI-07(05)_ODP[01] SELECTED PARAMETER VALUES> are automatically performed when integrity violations are discovered.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; integrity verification tools and associated documentation; records of integrity scans; records of integrity checks and responses to integrity violations; audit records; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel responsible for software, firmware, and/or information integrity; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators; system developer].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools; mechanisms providing an automated response to integrity violations; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing security safeguards to be implemented when integrity violations are discovered].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SI-7(5). 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
Configuration
- system design documentation
- system configuration settings and associated documentation
Testing
- Software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools
- mechanisms providing an automated response to integrity violations
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing security safeguards to be implemented when integrity violations are discovered
Other Records
- system and information integrity procedures
- procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity
- integrity verification tools and associated documentation
- records of integrity scans
- records of integrity checks and responses to integrity violations
- audit records
- other relevant documents or records