CM-9 Configuration Management Plan
Develop, document, and implement a configuration management plan for the system that: a. Addresses roles, responsibilities, and configuration management processes and procedures; b. Establishes a process for identifying configuration items throughout the system development life cycle and for managing the configuration of the configuration items; c. Defines the configuration items for the system and places the configuration items under configuration management; d. Is reviewed and approved by organization-defined personnel or roles; and e. Protects the configuration management plan from unauthorized disclosure and modification.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, CM-9. 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 configuration management planning · Cloud console / configuration management
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Test of Organizational processes for developing and documenting the configuration management plan; organizational processes for identifying and managing configuration items; organizational processes for protecting the configuration management plan; mechanisms implementing the configuration management plan; · 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 design documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Privacy plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- No configuration management plan exists defining configuration items and placing them under configuration management
- The configuration management plan is not reviewed and approved by defined roles, nor protected from unauthorized modification
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-8(9) System Component Inventory | Assignment of Components to Systems · CM-9(1) Configuration Management Plan | Assignment of Responsibility