MA-2(2) Controlled Maintenance | Automated Maintenance Activities
(a) Schedule, conduct, and document maintenance, repair, and replacement actions for the system using organization-defined automated mechanisms; and (b) Produce up-to date, accurate, and complete records of all maintenance, repair, and replacement actions requested, scheduled, in process, and completed.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, MA-2(2). 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
- Test of Automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing controlled maintenance; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the production of records of maintenance and repair actions · Document repository
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Maintenance records · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Maintenance policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Procedures addressing controlled system maintenance · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Automated mechanisms supporting system maintenance activities · Document repository
- System configuration settings and associated documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
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Common gaps auditors find
- Maintenance actions are scheduled and recorded manually rather than using the organization-defined automated mechanisms
- Maintenance records are incomplete, missing requested or in-process actions required by (b)
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