id: "SI-04(12)" title: "Automated Organization-generated Alerts" family: "SI" family_name: "System and Information Integrity" sort_id: "si-04.12" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "system" parent: "SI-04" enhancement: True


Statement

Alert {{ insert: param, si-04.12_odp.01 }} using {{ insert: param, si-04.12_odp.02 }} when the following indications of inappropriate or unusual activities with security or privacy implications occur: {{ insert: param, si-04.12_odp.03 }}.

Guidance

Organizational personnel on the system alert notification list include system administrators, mission or business owners, system owners, senior agency information security officer, senior agency official for privacy, system security officers, or privacy officers. Automated organization-generated alerts are the security alerts generated by organizations and transmitted using automated means. The sources for organization-generated alerts are focused on other entities such as suspicious activity reports and reports on potential insider threats. In contrast to alerts generated by the organization, alerts generated by the system in SI-4(5) focus on information sources that are internal to the systems, such as audit records.

Assessment Objective

{{ insert: param, si-04.12_odp.01 }} is/are alerted using {{ insert: param, si-04.12_odp.02 }} when {{ insert: param, si-04.12_odp.03 }} indicate inappropriate or unusual activities with security or privacy implications.

System and information integrity policy

system and information integrity procedures

procedures addressing system monitoring tools and techniques

system design documentation

system monitoring tools and techniques documentation

system configuration settings and associated documentation

list of inappropriate or unusual activities with security and privacy implications that trigger alerts

suspicious activity reports

alerts provided to security and privacy personnel

system monitoring logs or records

system audit records

system security plan

privacy plan

other relevant documents or records

System/network administrators

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities

system developers

organizational personnel installing, configuring, and/or maintaining the system

organizational personnel responsible for monitoring the system

organizational personnel responsible for the intrusion detection system

Organizational processes for intrusion detection and system monitoring

automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing intrusion detection and system monitoring capabilities

automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing automated alerts to security personnel