Multiple Stages of System Development Life Cycle
LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Employ anti-tamper technologies, tools, and techniques throughout the system development life cycle.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
The system development life cycle includes research and development, design, manufacturing, acquisition, delivery, integration, operations and maintenance, and disposal. Organizations use a combination of hardware and software techniques for tamper resistance and detection. Organizations use obfuscation and self-checking to make reverse engineering and modifications more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive for adversaries. The customization of systems and system components can make substitutions easier to detect and therefore limit damage.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for SR-9(1) 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
- anti-tamper technologies, tools, and techniques are employed throughout the system development life cycle.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Supply chain risk management policy and procedures; supply chain risk management plan; system and services acquisition policy; procedures addressing tamper resistance and detection; tamper protection program documentation; tamper protection tools and techniques documentation; tamper resistance and detection tools (technologies) and techniques documentation; system development life cycle documentation; procedures addressing supply chain protection; system development life cycle procedures; acquisition documentation; service level agreements; acquisition contracts for the system, system component, or system service; inter-organizational agreements and procedures; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with system and services acquisition responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; organizational personnel with supply chain risk management responsibilities; organizational personnel with SDLC responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for employing anti-tamper technologies; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing anti-tamper technologies].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SR-9(1). 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
- Supply chain risk management policy and procedures
- supply chain risk management plan
- system and services acquisition policy
- tamper protection program documentation
- system security plan
Testing
- Organizational processes for employing anti-tamper technologies
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing anti-tamper technologies
Other Records
- procedures addressing tamper resistance and detection
- tamper protection tools and techniques documentation
- tamper resistance and detection tools (technologies) and techniques documentation
- system development life cycle documentation
- procedures addressing supply chain protection
- system development life cycle procedures
- acquisition documentation
- service level agreements
- acquisition contracts for the system, system component, or system service
- inter-organizational agreements and procedures
- other relevant documents or records