CM-3(4) Configuration Change Control | Security and Privacy Representatives
Require organization-defined security and privacy representatives to be members of the organization-defined configuration change control element.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, CM-3(4). 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 800-53 Rev 5 in the compliance library.
Base controls and their enhancements. Which apply follows the baseline you are assessed against (for example FedRAMP Moderate or High, or the low, moderate and high baselines of SP 800-53B). Text in square brackets is a parameter your organisation sets.
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
- Procedures addressing system configuration change control · Cloud console / configuration management
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Test of Organizational processes for configuration change control · Cloud console / configuration management
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Configuration management policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Configuration management plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Privacy plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- The change control board has no designated security or privacy representative among its members
- Security and privacy representatives are named but meeting minutes show they do not attend or review changes
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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