PM-7 Enterprise Architecture
Reflects supply chain dependency and concentration in the enterprise architecture so that structural risk is visible.
Source: NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain), PM-7. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) in the compliance library.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Concentration analysis · Cloud console / configuration management
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Architecture views showing supplier and component dependency · Vendor register / contract repository
- Use of the architecture in investment decisions · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- architecture models technology but not who supplies it
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.
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