id: "SA-03" title: "System Development Life Cycle" family: "SA" family_name: "System and Services Acquisition" sort_id: "sa-03" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" enhancements: - sa-3.1 - sa-3.2 - sa-3.3
Acquire, develop, and manage the system using {{ insert: param, sa-03_odp }} that incorporates information security and privacy considerations;
Define and document information security and privacy roles and responsibilities throughout the system development life cycle;
Identify individuals having information security and privacy roles and responsibilities; and
Integrate the organizational information security and privacy risk management process into system development life cycle activities.
Guidance
A system development life cycle process provides the foundation for the successful development, implementation, and operation of organizational systems. The integration of security and privacy considerations early in the system development life cycle is a foundational principle of systems security engineering and privacy engineering. To apply the required controls within the system development life cycle requires a basic understanding of information security and privacy, threats, vulnerabilities, adverse impacts, and risk to critical mission and business functions. The security engineering principles in SA-8 help individuals properly design, code, and test systems and system components. Organizations include qualified personnel (e.g., senior agency information security officers, senior agency officials for privacy, security and privacy architects, and security and privacy engineers) in system development life cycle processes to ensure that established security and privacy requirements are incorporated into organizational systems. Role-based security and privacy training programs can ensure that individuals with key security and privacy roles and responsibilities have the experience, skills, and expertise to conduct assigned system development life cycle activities.
The effective integration of security and privacy requirements into enterprise architecture also helps to ensure that important security and privacy considerations are addressed throughout the system life cycle and that those considerations are directly related to organizational mission and business processes. This process also facilitates the integration of the information security and privacy architectures into the enterprise architecture, consistent with the risk management strategy of the organization. Because the system development life cycle involves multiple organizations, (e.g., external suppliers, developers, integrators, service providers), acquisition and supply chain risk management functions and controls play significant roles in the effective management of the system during the life cycle.
Assessment Objective: the system is acquired, developed, and managed using {{ insert: param, sa-03_odp }} that incorporates information security considerations;
Assessment Objective: the system is acquired, developed, and managed using {{ insert: param, sa-03_odp }} that incorporates privacy considerations;
Assessment Objective: information security roles and responsibilities are defined and documented throughout the system development life cycle;
Assessment Objective: privacy roles and responsibilities are defined and documented throughout the system development life cycle;
Assessment Objective: individuals with information security roles and responsibilities are identified;
Assessment Objective: individuals with privacy roles and responsibilities are identified;
Assessment Objective: organizational information security risk management processes are integrated into system development life cycle activities;
Assessment Objective: organizational privacy risk management processes are integrated into system development life cycle activities.
System and services acquisition policy
system and services acquisition procedures
procedures addressing the integration of information security and privacy and supply chain risk management into the system development life cycle process
system development life cycle documentation
organizational risk management strategy
information security and privacy risk management strategy documentation
system security plan
privacy plan
privacy program plan
enterprise architecture documentation
role-based security and privacy training program documentation
data mapping documentation
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
organizational personnel with system life cycle development responsibilities
organizational personnel with supply chain risk management responsibilities
Organizational processes for defining and documenting the system development life cycle
organizational processes for identifying system development life cycle roles and responsibilities
organizational processes for integrating information security and privacy and supply chain risk management into the system development life cycle
mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the system development life cycle