Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• SI-05a. system security alerts, advisories, and directives are received from [Assignment: external organizations] on an ongoing basis;
• SI-05b. internal security alerts, advisories, and directives are generated as deemed necessary;
• SI-05c. security alerts, advisories, and directives are disseminated to [Selection (one or more): [Assignment: personnel or roles] ; [Assignment: elements] ; [Assignment: external organizations] ];
• SI-05d. security directives are implemented in accordance with established time frames or if the issuing organization is notified of the degree of noncompliance.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• System and information integrity policy
• system and information integrity procedures
• procedures addressing security alerts, advisories, and directives
• records of security alerts and advisories
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with security alert and advisory responsibilities
• organizational personnel implementing, operating, maintaining, and using the system
• organizational personnel, organizational elements, and/or external organizations to whom alerts, advisories, and directives are to be disseminated
• system/network administrators
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

Test

• Organizational processes for defining, receiving, generating, disseminating, and complying with security alerts, advisories, and directives
• mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the definition, receipt, generation, and dissemination of security alerts, advisories, and directives
• mechanisms supporting and/or implementing security directives

Συνδεδεμένα ζητήματα

• NIST -

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