Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• RA-05a.
  • RA-05a.[01] systems and hosted applications are monitored for vulnerabilities [Assignment: frequency and/or randomly in accordance with organization-defined process] and when new vulnerabilities potentially affecting the system are identified and reported;
  • RA-05a.[02] systems and hosted applications are scanned for vulnerabilities [Assignment: frequency and/or randomly in accordance with organization-defined process] and when new vulnerabilities potentially affecting the system are identified and reported;
• RA-05b. vulnerability monitoring tools and techniques are employed to facilitate interoperability among tools;
  • RA-05b.01 vulnerability monitoring tools and techniques are employed to automate parts of the vulnerability management process by using standards for enumerating platforms, software flaws, and improper configurations;
  • RA-05b.02 vulnerability monitoring tools and techniques are employed to facilitate interoperability among tools and to automate parts of the vulnerability management process by using standards for formatting checklists and test procedures;
  • RA-05b.03 vulnerability monitoring tools and techniques are employed to facilitate interoperability among tools and to automate parts of the vulnerability management process by using standards for measuring vulnerability impact;
• RA-05c. vulnerability scan reports and results from vulnerability monitoring are analyzed;
• RA-05d. legitimate vulnerabilities are remediated [Assignment: response times] in accordance with an organizational assessment of risk;
• RA-05e. information obtained from the vulnerability monitoring process and control assessments is shared with [Assignment: personnel or roles] to help eliminate similar vulnerabilities in other systems;
• RA-05f. vulnerability monitoring tools that include the capability to readily update the vulnerabilities to be scanned are employed.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Risk assessment policy
• procedures addressing vulnerability scanning
• risk assessment
• assessment report
• vulnerability scanning tools and associated configuration documentation
• vulnerability scanning results
• patch and vulnerability management records
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with risk assessment, control assessment, and vulnerability scanning responsibilities
• organizational personnel with vulnerability scan analysis responsibilities
• organizational personnel with vulnerability remediation responsibilities
• organizational personnel with security responsibilities
• system/network administrators

Test

• Organizational processes for vulnerability scanning, analysis, remediation, and information sharing
• mechanisms supporting and/or implementing vulnerability scanning, analysis, remediation, and information sharing

Gekoppelde issues

• NIST -

  EN: Publications of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce, https://www.nist.gov/, from their electronic versions (OSCAL; SP 800-63-4 from its HTML version, https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/). Works of NIST employees are not subject to copyright protection in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105); the OSCAL content is dedicated to the public domain worldwide (CC0 1.0); outside the United States NIST grants the right to reprint its technical series publications in all formats (NIST copyright statement). Republished courtesy of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; each document names its citation. Divided into sections and converted into the GRCA format, the wording unchanged. Only the versions published by NIST are authoritative.

  DE: Veröffentlichungen des National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce, https://www.nist.gov/, aus ihren elektronischen Fassungen (OSCAL; SP 800-63-4 aus ihrer HTML-Fassung, https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/). Werke von NIST-Beschäftigten sind in den USA urheberrechtlich nicht geschützt (17 U.S.C. § 105); die OSCAL-Inhalte sind weltweit gemeinfrei gestellt (CC0 1.0); außerhalb der USA räumt das NIST das Recht ein, seine Technical-Series-Publikationen in allen Formaten neu zu veröffentlichen (Copyright-Hinweis des NIST). „Republished courtesy of the National Institute of Standards and Technology“; jedes Dokument nennt seine Zitierangabe. In Abschnitte aufgeteilt und in das GRCA-Format umgewandelt, der Wortlaut unverändert. Maßgeblich sind allein die vom NIST veröffentlichten Fassungen.