Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• CM-07(04)(a) [Assignment: software programs] are identified;
• CM-07(04)(b) an allow-all, deny-by-exception policy is employed to prohibit the execution of unauthorized software programs on the system;
• CM-07(04)(c) the list of unauthorized software programs is reviewed and updated [Assignment: frequency].

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Configuration management policy
• procedures addressing least functionality in the system
• configuration management plan
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• list of software programs not authorized to execute on the system
• system component inventory
• common secure configuration checklists
• review and update records associated with list of unauthorized software programs
• change control records
• system audit records
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with responsibilities for identifying software not authorized to execute on the system
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• system/network administrators

Test

• Organizational process for identifying, reviewing, and updating programs not authorized to execute on the system
• organizational process for implementing unauthorized software policy
• mechanisms supporting and/or implementing unauthorized software policy

Ticket collegati

• NIST -

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