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NIST 800-171 · Configuration Management

Requirement 3.4.2

SPRS weight
SPRS weight: 5
POA&M eligibility
Not POA&M-eligible
Assessment objectives
2 assessment objectives

Official requirement text

Establish and enforce security configuration settings for information technology products employed in organizational systems.

Assessment objectives

Assessors don’t evaluate the requirement as one sentence; they walk these objectives one by one. Each must be met for the requirement to score.

  1. 3.4.2[a]security configuration settings for information technology products employed in the system are established and included in the baseline configuration.
  2. 3.4.2[b]security configuration settings for information technology products employed in the system are enforced.

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