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3.1.15 pts

Limit system access to authorized users, processes acting on behalf of authorized users, and devices (including other systems).

3.1.25 pts

Limit system access to the types of transactions and functions that authorized users are permitted to execute.

3.1.31 pts

Control the flow of CUI in accordance with approved authorizations.

3.1.41 pts

Separate the duties of individuals to reduce the risk of malevolent activity without collusion.

3.1.53 pts

Employ the principle of least privilege, including for specific security functions and privileged accounts.

3.1.61 pts

Use non-privileged accounts or roles when accessing non-security functions.

3.1.71 pts

Prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions and capture the execution of such functions in audit logs.

3.1.81 pts

Limit unsuccessful logon attempts.

3.1.91 pts

Provide privacy and security notices consistent with applicable CUI rules.

3.1.101 pts

Use session lock with pattern-hiding displays to prevent access and viewing of data after a period of inactivity.

3.1.111 pts

Terminate (automatically) a user session after a defined condition.

3.1.125 pts

Monitor and control remote access sessions.

3.1.135 pts

Employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

3.1.141 pts

Route remote access via managed access control points.

3.1.151 pts

Authorize remote execution of privileged commands and remote access to security-relevant information.

3.1.165 pts

Authorize wireless access prior to allowing such connections.

3.1.175 pts

Protect wireless access using authentication and encryption.

3.1.185 pts

Control connection of mobile devices.

3.1.193 pts

Encrypt CUI on mobile devices and mobile computing platforms.

3.1.201 pts

Verify and control/limit connections to and use of external systems.

3.1.211 pts

Limit use of portable storage devices on external systems.

3.1.221 pts

Control CUI posted or processed on publicly accessible systems.

3.2.15 pts

Ensure that managers, systems administrators, and users of organizational systems are made aware of the security risks associated with their activities and of the applicable policies, standards, and procedures related to the security of those systems.

3.2.25 pts

Ensure that personnel are trained to carry out their assigned information security-related duties and responsibilities.

3.2.31 pts

Provide security awareness training on recognizing and reporting potential indicators of insider threat.

3.3.15 pts

Create and retain system audit logs and records to the extent needed to enable the monitoring, analysis, investigation, and reporting of unlawful or unauthorized system activity.

3.3.23 pts

Ensure that the actions of individual system users can be uniquely traced to those users so they can be held accountable for their actions.

3.3.31 pts

Review and update logged events.

3.3.41 pts

Alert in the event of an audit logging process failure.

3.3.55 pts

Correlate audit record review, analysis, and reporting processes for investigation and response to indications of unlawful, unauthorized, suspicious, or unusual activity.

3.3.61 pts

Provide audit record reduction and report generation to support on-demand analysis and reporting.

3.3.71 pts

Provide a system capability that compares and synchronizes internal system clocks with an authoritative source to generate time stamps for audit records.

3.3.81 pts

Protect audit information and audit logging tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion.

3.3.91 pts

Limit management of audit logging functionality to a subset of privileged users.

3.4.15 pts

Establish and maintain baseline configurations and inventories of organizational systems (including hardware, software, firmware, and documentation) throughout the respective system development life cycles.

3.4.25 pts

Establish and enforce security configuration settings for information technology products employed in organizational systems.

3.4.31 pts

Track, review, approve or disapprove, and log changes to organizational systems.

3.4.41 pts

Analyze the security impact of changes prior to implementation.

3.4.55 pts

Define, document, approve, and enforce physical and logical access restrictions associated with changes to organizational systems.

3.4.65 pts

Employ the principle of least functionality by configuring organizational systems to provide only essential capabilities.

3.4.75 pts

Restrict, disable, or prevent the use of nonessential programs, functions, ports, protocols, and services.

3.4.85 pts

Apply deny-by-exception (blacklisting) policy to prevent the use of unauthorized software or deny-all, permit-by-exception (whitelisting) policy to allow the execution of authorized software.

3.4.91 pts

Control and monitor user-installed software.

3.5.15 pts

Identify system users, processes acting on behalf of users, and devices.

3.5.25 pts

Authenticate (or verify) the identities of users, processes, or devices, as a prerequisite to allowing access to organizational systems.

3.5.35 pts

Use multifactor authentication for local and network access to privileged accounts and for network access to non-privileged accounts.

3.5.41 pts

Employ replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged and non-privileged accounts.

3.5.51 pts

Prevent reuse of identifiers for a defined period.

3.5.61 pts

Disable identifiers after a defined period of inactivity.

3.5.71 pts

Enforce a minimum password complexity and change of characters when new passwords are created.

3.5.81 pts

Prohibit password reuse for a specified number of generations.

3.5.91 pts

Allow temporary password use for system logons with an immediate change to a permanent password.

3.5.105 pts

Store and transmit only cryptographically-protected passwords.

3.5.111 pts

Obscure feedback of authentication information.

3.6.15 pts

Establish an operational incident-handling capability for organizational systems that includes preparation, detection, analysis, containment, recovery, and user response activities.

3.6.25 pts

Track, document, and report incidents to designated officials and/or authorities both internal and external to the organization.

3.6.31 pts

Test the organizational incident response capability.

3.7.13 pts

Perform maintenance on organizational systems.

3.7.25 pts

Provide controls on the tools, techniques, mechanisms, and personnel used to conduct system maintenance.

3.7.31 pts

Ensure equipment removed for off-site maintenance is sanitized of any CUI.

3.7.43 pts

Check media containing diagnostic and test programs for malicious code before the media are used in organizational systems.

3.7.55 pts

Require multifactor authentication to establish nonlocal maintenance sessions via external network connections and terminate such connections when nonlocal maintenance is complete.

3.7.61 pts

Supervise the maintenance activities of maintenance personnel without required access authorization.

3.8.13 pts

Protect (i.e., physically control and securely store) system media containing CUI, both paper and digital.

3.8.23 pts

Limit access to CUI on system media to authorized users.

3.8.35 pts

Sanitize or destroy system media containing CUI before disposal or release for reuse.

3.8.41 pts

Mark media with necessary CUI markings and distribution limitations.

3.8.51 pts

Control access to media containing CUI and maintain accountability for media during transport outside of controlled areas.

3.8.61 pts

Implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of CUI stored on digital media during transport unless otherwise protected by alternative physical safeguards.

3.8.75 pts

Control the use of removable media on system components.

3.8.83 pts

Prohibit the use of portable storage devices when such devices have no identifiable owner.

3.8.91 pts

Protect the confidentiality of backup CUI at storage locations.

3.9.13 pts

Screen individuals prior to authorizing access to organizational systems containing CUI.

3.9.25 pts

Ensure that organizational systems containing CUI are protected during and after personnel actions such as terminations and transfers.

3.10.15 pts

Limit physical access to organizational systems, equipment, and the respective operating environments to authorized individuals.

3.10.25 pts

Protect and monitor the physical facility and support infrastructure for organizational systems.

3.10.31 pts

Escort visitors and monitor visitor activity.

3.10.41 pts

Maintain audit logs of physical access.

3.10.51 pts

Control and manage physical access devices.

3.10.61 pts

Enforce safeguarding measures for CUI at alternate work sites.

3.11.13 pts

Periodically assess the risk to organizational operations (including mission, functions, image, or reputation), organizational assets, and individuals, resulting from the operation of organizational systems and the associated processing, storage, or transmission of CUI.

3.11.25 pts

Scan for vulnerabilities in organizational systems and applications periodically and when new vulnerabilities affecting those systems and applications are identified.

3.11.31 pts

Remediate vulnerabilities in accordance with risk assessments.

3.12.15 pts

Periodically assess the security controls in organizational systems to determine if the controls are effective in their application.

3.12.23 pts

Develop and implement plans of action designed to correct deficiencies and reduce or eliminate vulnerabilities in organizational systems.

3.12.35 pts

Monitor security controls on an ongoing basis to ensure the continued effectiveness of the controls.

3.12.40 pts

Develop, document, and periodically update system security plans that describe system boundaries, system environments of operation, how security requirements are implemented, and the relationships with or connections to other systems.

No points, but required: without a system security plan there is no valid score.

3.13.15 pts

Monitor, control, and protect communications (i.e., information transmitted or received by organizational systems) at the external boundaries and key internal boundaries of organizational systems.

3.13.25 pts

Employ architectural designs, software development techniques, and systems engineering principles that promote effective information security within organizational systems.

3.13.31 pts

Separate user functionality from system management functionality.

3.13.41 pts

Prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

3.13.55 pts

Implement subnetworks for publicly accessible system components that are physically or logically separated from internal networks.

3.13.65 pts

Deny network communications traffic by default and allow network communications traffic by exception (i.e., deny all, permit by exception).

3.13.71 pts

Prevent remote devices from simultaneously establishing non-remote connections with organizational systems and communicating via some other connection to resources in external networks (i.e., split tunneling).

3.13.83 pts

Implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of CUI during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical safeguards.

3.13.91 pts

Terminate network connections associated with communications sessions at the end of the sessions or after a defined period of inactivity.

3.13.101 pts

Establish and manage cryptographic keys for cryptography employed in organizational systems.

3.13.115 pts

Employ FIPS-validated cryptography when used to protect the confidentiality of CUI.

3.13.121 pts

Prohibit remote activation of collaborative computing devices and provide indication of devices in use to users present at the device.

3.13.131 pts

Control and monitor the use of mobile code.

3.13.141 pts

Control and monitor the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies.

3.13.155 pts

Protect the authenticity of communications sessions.

3.13.161 pts

Protect the confidentiality of CUI at rest.

3.14.15 pts

Identify, report, and correct system flaws in a timely manner.

3.14.25 pts

Provide protection from malicious code at designated locations within organizational systems.

3.14.35 pts

Monitor system security alerts and advisories and take action in response.

3.14.45 pts

Update malicious code protection mechanisms when new releases are available.

3.14.53 pts

Perform periodic scans of organizational systems and real-time scans of files from external sources as files are downloaded, opened, or executed.

3.14.65 pts

Monitor organizational systems, including inbound and outbound communications traffic, to detect attacks and indicators of potential attacks.

3.14.73 pts

Identify unauthorized use of organizational systems.