id: "CM-03(05)" title: "Automated Security Response" family: "CM" family_name: "Configuration Management" sort_id: "cm-03.05" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "system" parent: "CM-03" enhancement: True


Statement

Implement the following security responses automatically if baseline configurations are changed in an unauthorized manner: {{ insert: param, cm-03.05_odp }}.

Guidance

Automated security responses include halting selected system functions, halting system processing, and issuing alerts or notifications to organizational personnel when there is an unauthorized modification of a configuration item.

Assessment Objective

{{ insert: param, cm-03.05_odp }} are automatically implemented if baseline configurations are changed in an unauthorized manner.

System security plan

configuration management policy

procedures addressing system configuration change control

configuration management plan

system design documentation

system architecture and configuration documentation

system configuration settings and associated documentation

alerts/notifications of unauthorized baseline configuration changes

system audit records

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with configuration change control responsibilities

organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

system/network administrators

system developers

members of change control board or similar

Organizational processes for configuration change control

automated mechanisms implementing security responses to unauthorized changes to the baseline configurations