Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• SI-05(01) [Assignment: automated mechanisms] are used to broadcast security alert and advisory information throughout the organization.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• System and information integrity policy
• system and information integrity procedures
• procedures addressing security alerts, advisories, and directives
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• automated mechanisms supporting the distribution of security alert and advisory information
• records of security alerts and advisories
• system audit records
• 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 and advisories are to be disseminated
• system/network administrators
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

Test

• Organizational processes for defining, receiving, generating, and disseminating security alerts and advisories
• automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the dissemination of security alerts and advisories

Ticket collegati

• NIST -

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