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.

  1. 3.4.3[a]changes to the system are tracked.
  2. 3.4.3[b]changes to the system are reviewed.
  3. 3.4.3[c]changes to the system are approved or disapproved.
  4. 3.4.3[d]changes to the system are logged.

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