SI-4 (05)—System Monitoring | System-generated Alerts
>Control Description
>FedRAMP Baseline Requirements
Additional Requirements and Guidance
SI-4 (5) Guidance: In accordance with the incident response plan.
>Discussion
Alerts may be generated from a variety of sources, including audit records or inputs from malicious code protection mechanisms, intrusion detection or prevention mechanisms, or boundary protection devices such as firewalls, gateways, and routers. Alerts can be automated and may be transmitted telephonically, by electronic mail messages, or by text messaging. Organizational personnel on the alert notification list can include system administrators, mission or business owners, system owners, information owners/stewards, senior agency information security officers, senior agency officials for privacy, system security officers, or privacy officers.
In contrast to alerts generated by the system, alerts generated by organizations in SI-4 (12) focus on information sources external to the system, such as suspicious activity reports and reports on potential insider threats.
>Assessment Interview Topics
Questions assessors commonly ask
Process & Governance:
- •What policies and procedures govern system-generated alerts?
- •Who is responsible for monitoring system and information integrity?
- •How frequently are integrity monitoring processes reviewed and updated?
Technical Implementation:
- •What technical controls detect and respond to system-generated alerts issues?
- •How are integrity violations identified and reported?
- •What automated tools support system and information integrity monitoring?
- •What anti-malware solutions are deployed and how are they configured?
Evidence & Documentation:
- •Can you provide recent integrity monitoring reports or alerts?
- •What logs demonstrate that SI-4(5) is actively implemented?
- •Where is evidence of integrity monitoring maintained and for how long?
- •Can you show recent malware detection reports and response actions?
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