id: "CM-12(01)" title: "Automated Tools to Support Information Location" family: "CM" family_name: "Configuration Management" sort_id: "cm-12.01" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "CM-12" enhancement: True


Statement

Use automated tools to identify {{ insert: param, cm-12.01_odp.01 }} on {{ insert: param, cm-12.01_odp.02 }} to ensure controls are in place to protect organizational information and individual privacy.

Guidance

The use of automated tools helps to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the information location capability implemented within the system. Automation also helps organizations manage the data produced during information location activities and share such information across the organization. The output of automated information location tools can be used to guide and inform system architecture and design decisions.

Assessment Objective

automated tools are used to identify {{ insert: param, cm-12.01_odp.01 }} on {{ insert: param, cm-12.01_odp.02 }} to ensure that controls are in place to protect organizational information and individual privacy.

Configuration management policy

procedures addressing identification and documentation of information location

configuration management plan

system design documentation

PII inventory documentation

data mapping documentation

change control records

system component inventory

system security plan

privacy plan

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with responsibilities for managing information location

organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

system/network administrators

system developers

Organizational processes governing information location

automated mechanisms enforcing policies and methods for governing information location

automated tools used to identify information on system components