id: "SA-10(04)" title: "Trusted Generation" family: "SA" family_name: "System and Services Acquisition" sort_id: "sa-10.04" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "SA-10" enhancement: True
Statement
Require the developer of the system, system component, or system service to employ tools for comparing newly generated versions of security-relevant hardware descriptions, source code, and object code with previous versions.
Guidance
The trusted generation of descriptions, source code, and object code addresses authorized changes to hardware, software, and firmware components between versions during development. The focus is on the efficacy of the configuration management process by the developer to ensure that newly generated versions of security-relevant hardware descriptions, source code, and object code continue to enforce the security policy for the system, system component, or system service. In contrast, SA-10(1) and SA-10(3) allow organizations to detect unauthorized changes to hardware, software, and firmware components using tools, techniques, or mechanisms provided by developers.
Assessment Objective: the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to employ tools for comparing newly generated versions of security-relevant hardware descriptions with previous versions;
Assessment Objective: the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to employ tools for comparing newly generated versions of source code with previous versions;
Assessment Objective: the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to employ tools for comparing newly generated versions of object code with previous versions.
System and services acquisition policy
procedures addressing system developer configuration management
solicitation documentation
acquisition documentation
service level agreements
acquisition contracts for the system, system component, or system service
system developer configuration management plan
change control records
configuration management records
configuration control audit records
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational processes for monitoring developer configuration management
mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the monitoring of developer configuration management