id: "CM-08(07)" title: "Centralized Repository" family: "CM" family_name: "Configuration Management" sort_id: "cm-08.07" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "CM-08" enhancement: True
Statement
Provide a centralized repository for the inventory of system components.
Guidance
Organizations may implement centralized system component inventories that include components from all organizational systems. Centralized repositories of component inventories provide opportunities for efficiencies in accounting for organizational hardware, software, and firmware assets. Such repositories may also help organizations rapidly identify the location and responsible individuals of components that have been compromised, breached, or are otherwise in need of mitigation actions. Organizations ensure that the resulting centralized inventories include system-specific information required for proper component accountability.
Assessment Objective
a centralized repository for the system component inventory is provided.
Configuration management policy
procedures addressing system component inventory
configuration management plan
system design documentation
system security plan
system component inventory
system configuration settings and associated documentation
change control records
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with component inventory management responsibilities
organizational personnel with security responsibilities
Organizational processes for managing the system component inventory
mechanisms supporting and/or implementing system component inventory