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

Integration of Detection and Response

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Incorporate the detection of the following unauthorized changes into the organizational incident response capability: [changes].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Integrating detection and response helps to ensure that detected events are tracked, monitored, corrected, and available for historical purposes. Maintaining historical records is important for being able to identify and discern adversary actions over an extended time period and for possible legal actions. Security-relevant changes include unauthorized changes to established configuration settings or the unauthorized elevation of system privileges.

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(7) 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. security-relevant changes to the system are defined;
  2. the detection of <SI-07(07)_ODP changes> are incorporated into the organizational incident response capability.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity; procedures addressing incident response; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; incident response records; 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; organizational personnel with incident response responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for incorporating the detection of unauthorized security-relevant changes into the incident response capability; software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the incorporation of detection of unauthorized security-relevant changes into the incident response capability].

Overlays

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

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

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Organizational processes for incorporating the detection of unauthorized security-relevant changes into the incident response capability
  • software, firmware, and information integrity verification tools
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the incorporation of detection of unauthorized security-relevant changes into the incident response capability

Other Records

  • system and information integrity procedures
  • procedures addressing software, firmware, and information integrity
  • procedures addressing incident response
  • incident response records
  • audit records
  • other relevant documents or records