Date Published: April 2018
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Author(s)
Kelley Dempsey (NIST), Nedim Goren (NIST), Paul Eavy (DHS), George Moore (APL)
Announcement
This is the initial public draft release of NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8011 Volume 3, Automation Support for Security Control Assessments: Software Asset Management. This NISTIR represents a joint effort between NIST and the Department of Homeland Security to provide an operational approach for automating security control assessments in order to facilitate information security continuous monitoring (ISCM), ongoing assessment, and ongoing security authorizations in a way that is consistent with the NIST Risk Management Framework overall and the guidance in NIST SPs 800-53 and 800-53A in particular.
NISTIR 8011 will ultimately consist of 13 volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 2017. Volume 3 provides details specific to the software asset management security capability. The remaining 10 ISCM security capability volumes will provide details specific to each capability but will be organized in a very similar way to Volumes 2 and 3.
The NISTIR 8011 volumes focus on each individual information security capability, adding tangible detail to the more general overview given in NISTIR 8011 Volume 1, and providing a template for transition to a detailed, NIST standards-compliant automated assessment. This document, Volume 3 of NISTIR 8011, addresses the Software Asset Management (SWAM) information security capability. The focus of the SWAM capability is to manage risk created by unmanaged software on a network. Unmanaged software is a target that attackers can use as a platform from which to attack components on the network.
The NISTIR 8011 volumes focus on each individual information security capability, adding tangible detail to the more general overview given in NISTIR 8011 Volume 1, and providing a template for transition to a detailed, NIST standards-compliant automated assessment. This document, Volume 3 of...
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The NISTIR 8011 volumes focus on each individual information security capability, adding tangible detail to the more general overview given in NISTIR 8011 Volume 1, and providing a template for transition to a detailed, NIST standards-compliant automated assessment. This document, Volume 3 of NISTIR 8011, addresses the Software Asset Management (SWAM) information security capability. The focus of the SWAM capability is to manage risk created by unmanaged software on a network. Unmanaged software is a target that attackers can use as a platform from which to attack components on the network.
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Keywords
actual state; assessment; assessment boundary; assessment method; authorization boundary; automated assessment; automation; capability; continuous diagnostics and mitigation; dashboard; defect; defect check; desired state specification; software asset management; information security continuous monitoring; firmware; ISCM dashboard, inventory management; malware; malicious code; mobile code; mitigation; ongoing assessment; root cause analysis; security automation; security capability; security control; security control assessment; security control item; software executable; SWID tag; software injection; software product; software whitelisting.
Control Families
Assessment, Authorization and Monitoring; Risk Assessment
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