CM-6 Configuration Settings
Establish/document configuration settings using checklists; CIS/USGCB/DISA STIG when available; HIGH baseline.
6
artefacts
2
held by a system
1
at each review
moderate
to go live
Cloud console / configuration management
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Configuration drift detection reports from the CMDB or tooling · Cloud console / configuration management
- Software inventory generated from authoritative discovery tooling · Cloud console / configuration management
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Emergency change records with retroactive approvals · Cloud console / configuration management
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Control implementation statement for CM-6 citing the system mission and inheritance from common controls · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Configuration management policy and change control procedure · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Approved baseline configurations for each platform family · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Start with the 2 of 6 artefacts that already live in a system (Cloud console / configuration management); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- Emergency changes bypass CAB and lack retrospective review
- Unauthorised software present on endpoints not flagged by tooling
- Hardening benchmarks applied at build but not re evaluated annually
- Asset inventory missing cloud workloads and ephemeral resources
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetCM-5(5) Access Restrictions for Change | Privilege Limitation for Production and Operation. (a) Limit privileges to change system components and system-related information within a production or operational environment; and (b) Review and reevaluate privileges [Assignment: · CM-6(1) Automated Management, Application, and Verification