Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• SA-21a. the developer of [Assignment: system, systems component, or system service] is required to have appropriate access authorizations as determined by assigned [Assignment: official government duties];
• SA-21b. the developer of [Assignment: system, systems component, or system service] is required to satisfy [Assignment: additional personnel screening criteria].

Assessment Methods

Examine

• System and services acquisition policy
• personnel security policy and procedures
• procedures addressing personnel screening
• system design documentation
• acquisition documentation
• service level agreements
• acquisition contracts for developer services
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• list of appropriate access authorizations required by the developers of the system
• personnel screening criteria and associated documentation
• system security plan
• supply chain risk management plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with system and service acquisition responsibilities
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• organizational personnel responsible for developer screening

Test

• Organizational processes for developer screening
• mechanisms supporting developer screening

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.