Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• SA-15(05) the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to reduce attack surfaces to [Assignment: thresholds].

Assessment Methods

Examine

• System and services acquisition policy
• procedures addressing development process, standards, and tools
• procedures addressing attack surface reduction
• solicitation documentation
• acquisition documentation
• service level agreements
• acquisition contracts for the system or system service
• system design documentation
• network diagram
• system configuration settings and associated documentation establishing/enforcing organization-defined thresholds for reducing attack surfaces
• list of restricted ports, protocols, functions, and services
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with system and service acquisition responsibilities
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• organizational personnel responsible for attack surface reduction thresholds
• system developer

Test

• Organizational processes for defining attack surface reduction thresholds

Linkede sager

• NIST -

  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final