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CCI-003073

CCI-003073 Definition

Develop security architectures for the system that describes the requirements and approach to be taken for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational information.

Status
Type	CheckType.policy

Master Assessment Datasheet

Implementation Guidance

The organization being inspected/assessed describes within the information security architecture for the information system, the overall philosophy, requirements, and approach to be taken with regard to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational information.

Validation Procedures

The organization conducting the inspection/assessment obtains and examines the information security architecture to ensure the organization being inspected/assessed describes within the information security architecture for the information system, the overall philosophy, requirements, and approach to be taken with regard to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational information.

Compelling Evidence

1.) Current documented information security architecture which includes the overall philosophy, requirements, and approach to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational information.

Related Controls

The controls below (if any) were marked by NIST as being related to CCI-003073.

Control	Description
PL-8	The organization: a: Develops an information security architecture for the information system that: 1: Describes the overall philosophy, requirements, and approach to be taken with regard to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational information; 2: Describes how the information security architecture is integrated into and supports the enterprise architecture; and 3: Describes any information security assumptions about, and dependencies on, external services; b: Reviews and updates the information security architecture [organization-defined frequency] to reflect updates in the enterprise architecture; and c: Ensures that planned information security architecture changes are reflected in the security plan, the security Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and organizational procurements/acquisitions.

Control

Description

PL-8

The organization:

a: Develops an information security architecture for the information system that:
- 1: Describes the overall philosophy, requirements, and approach to be taken with regard to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational information;
- 2: Describes how the information security architecture is integrated into and supports the enterprise architecture; and
- 3: Describes any information security assumptions about, and dependencies on, external services;

b: Reviews and updates the information security architecture [organization-defined frequency] to reflect updates in the enterprise architecture; and

c: Ensures that planned information security architecture changes are reflected in the security plan, the security Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and organizational procurements/acquisitions.