Assessment Objective
Determine if:
- SI-03(10)(a) [Assignment: tools and techniques] are employed to analyze the characteristics and behavior of malicious code;
- SI-03(10)(b)
- SI-03(10)(b)[01] the results from malicious code analysis are incorporated into organizational incident response processes;
- SI-03(10)(b)[02] the results from malicious code analysis are incorporated into organizational flaw remediation processes.
Assessment Methods
Examine
- System and information integrity policy
- system and information integrity procedures
- procedures addressing malicious code protection
- procedures addressing incident response
- procedures addressing flaw remediation
- system design documentation
- malicious code protection mechanisms, tools, and techniques
- system configuration settings and associated documentation
- results from malicious code analyses
- records of flaw remediation events resulting from malicious code analyses
- system audit records
- system security plan
- other relevant documents or records
Interview
- System/network administrators
- organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
- organizational personnel installing, configuring, and/or maintaining the system
- organizational personnel responsible for malicious code protection
- organizational personnel responsible for flaw remediation
- organizational personnel responsible for incident response/management
Test
- Organizational process for incident response
- organizational process for flaw remediation
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing malicious code protection capabilities
- tools and techniques for the analysis of malicious code characteristics and behavior
Linked Issues
| Linktype | Issue |
|---|---|
| blocks | SI-03(10) Malicious Code Analysis |