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NIST SP 800-171 CUI Protection Center

03.12 — Security Assessment and Monitoring

Study this CUI requirement family as a connected set of implementation decisions, evidence expectations, and assessment procedures.

4Active requirements
1Withdrawn records
3Parameters
17Assessment objectives

CUI requirement family

Security Assessment and Monitoring

Use this family as a planning boundary, but assess every applicable requirement against the real CUI system boundary, inherited services, organization-defined parameters, and operational evidence.

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Requirements and assessment procedures.

Withdrawn records remain available and link to the requirements where their intent was incorporated or addressed.

03.12.01Active

Security Assessment

By assessing the security requirements, organizations determine whether the necessary safeguards and countermeasures are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome. Security assessments identify weaknesses in the system and provide the essential information needed to make risk-based decisions. Security assessment reports document assessment results in sufficient detail as deemed n

03.12.02Active

Plan of Action and Milestones

Plans of action and milestones (POAMs) are important documents in organizational security programs. Organizations use POAMs to describe how unsatisfied security requirements will be met and how planned mitigations will be implemented. Organizations can document system security plans and POAMs as separate or combined documents in any format. Federal agencies may consider system security plans and POAMs as inputs to ri

03.12.03Active

Continuous Monitoring

Continuous monitoring at the system level facilitates ongoing awareness of the system security posture to support risk management decisions. The terms continuous and ongoing imply that organizations assess and monitor their systems at a frequency that is sufficient to support risk-based decisions. Different types of security requirements may require different monitoring frequencies.

03.12.04Withdrawn

Withdrawn requirement

Withdrawn NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 requirement 03.12.04; use the recorded replacement relationships.

03.12.05Active

Information Exchange

Information exchange applies to information exchanges between two or more systems, both internal and external to the organization. Organizations consider the risks related to new or increased threats that may be introduced when systems exchange information with other systems that may have different security requirements or policies. The types of agreements selected are based on factors such as the relationship betwee