id: "SA-08(25)" title: "Economic Security" family: "SA" family_name: "System and Services Acquisition" sort_id: "sa-08.25" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "system" parent: "SA-08" enhancement: True
Statement
Implement the security design principle of economic security in {{ insert: param, sa-08.25_odp }}.
Guidance
The principle of economic security states that security mechanisms are not costlier than the potential damage that could occur from a security breach. This is the security-relevant form of the cost-benefit analyses used in risk management. The cost assumptions of cost-benefit analysis prevent the system designer from incorporating security mechanisms of greater strength than necessary, where strength of mechanism is proportional to cost. The principle of economic security also requires analysis of the benefits of assurance relative to the cost of that assurance in terms of the effort expended to obtain relevant and credible evidence as well as the necessary analyses to assess and draw trustworthiness and risk conclusions from the evidence.
Assessment Objective
{{ insert: param, sa-08.25_odp }} implement the security design principle of economic security.
System and services acquisition policy
procedures addressing the security design principle of economic security used in the specification, design, development, implementation, and modification of the system
system design documentation
security and privacy requirements and specifications for the system
system security and privacy architecture
cost-benefit analysis
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with the responsibility for determining system security and privacy requirements
organizational personnel with system specification, design, development, implementation, and modification responsibilities
system developers
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
Organizational processes for applying the security design principle of economic security in system specification, design, development, implementation, and modification
mechanisms supporting the application of the security design principle of economic security in system specification, design, development, implementation, and modification