id: "CM-03(06)" title: "Cryptography Management" family: "CM" family_name: "Configuration Management" sort_id: "cm-03.06" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "CM-03" enhancement: True


Statement

Ensure that cryptographic mechanisms used to provide the following controls are under configuration management: {{ insert: param, cm-03.06_odp }}.

Guidance

The controls referenced in the control enhancement refer to security and privacy controls from the control catalog. Regardless of the cryptographic mechanisms employed, processes and procedures are in place to manage those mechanisms. For example, if system components use certificates for identification and authentication, a process is implemented to address the expiration of those certificates.

Assessment Objective

cryptographic mechanisms used to provide {{ insert: param, cm-03.06_odp }} are under configuration management.

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

system security plan

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

cryptographic mechanisms implementing organizational security safeguards (controls)