Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• CM-11a. [Assignment: policies] governing the installation of software by users are established;
• CM-11b. software installation policies are enforced through [Assignment: methods];
• CM-11c. compliance with [Assignment: policies] is monitored [Assignment: frequency].

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Configuration management policy
• procedures addressing user-installed software
• configuration management plan
• system security plan
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• list of rules governing user installed software
• system monitoring records
• system audit records
• continuous monitoring strategy
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with responsibilities for governing user-installed software
• organizational personnel operating, using, and/or maintaining the system
• organizational personnel monitoring compliance with user-installed software policy
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• system/network administrators

Test

• Organizational processes governing user-installed software on the system
• mechanisms enforcing policies and methods for governing the installation of software by users
• mechanisms monitoring policy compliance

Kwistjonijiet marbuta

• NIST -

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