NIST 800-171 · Configuration Management
Requirement 3.4.3
- SPRS weight
- SPRS weight: 1
- POA&M eligibility
- POA&M-eligible
- Assessment objectives
- 4 assessment objectives
Official requirement text
Track, review, approve or disapprove, and log changes to 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.
- 3.4.3[a]changes to the system are tracked.
- 3.4.3[b]changes to the system are reviewed.
- 3.4.3[c]changes to the system are approved or disapproved.
- 3.4.3[d]changes to the system are logged.
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