DE.DP-3: Detection processes are tested

Select the appropriate assessor or assessment team for the type of assessment to be conducted; Develop a control assessment plan that describes the scope of the assessment including: Controls and control enhancements under assessment; Assessment procedures to be used to determine control effectiveness; and Assessment environment, assessment team, and assessment roles and responsibilities; Ensure the…

Develop a system-level continuous monitoring strategy and implement continuous monitoring in accordance with the organization-level continuous monitoring strategy that includes: Establishing the following system-level metrics to be monitored: [Assignment: organization-defined system-level metrics]; Establishing [Assignment: organization-defined frequencies] for monitoring and [Assignment: organization-defined frequencies] for assessment of control effectiveness; Ongoing control assessments in accordance with the continuous…

Implement a process for ensuring that organizational plans for conducting security and privacy testing, training, and monitoring activities associated with organizational systems: Are developed and maintained; and Continue to be executed; and Review testing, training, and monitoring plans for consistency with the organizational risk management strategy and organization-wide priorities for risk response actions.

Implement [Assignment (one or more): signature based, non-signature based] malicious code protection mechanisms at system entry and exit points to detect and eradicate malicious code; Automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms as new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures; Configure malicious code protection mechanisms to: Perform periodic scans of…

1. Strategically within the system to collect organization-determined essential information; and 1. At ad hoc locations within the system to track specific types of transactions of interest to the organization; Monitor the system to detect: Attacks and indicators of potential attacks in accordance with the following monitoring objectives: [Assignment: organization-defined monitoring objectives]; and Unauthorized local,…

Organizations have flexibility in the types of audit logs employed. Audit logs can be procedural (e.g., a written log of individuals accessing the facility), automated (e.g., capturing ID provided by a PIV card), or some combination thereof. Physical access points can include facility access points, interior access points to systems or system components requiring supplemental…

Organizations assess security controls in organizational systems and the environments in which those systems operate as part of the system development life cycle. Security controls are the safeguards or countermeasures organizations implement to satisfy security requirements. By assessing the implemented security controls, organizations determine if the security safeguards or countermeasures are in place and operating…

Continuous monitoring programs facilitate ongoing awareness of threats, vulnerabilities, and information security to support organizational risk management decisions. The terms continuous and ongoing imply that organizations assess and analyze security controls and information security-related risks at a frequency sufficient to support risk-based decisions. The results of continuous monitoring programs generate appropriate risk response actions by…