Protection from malicious code at designated locations is provided

Assessment Procedures

The official government assessment method for this objective, exactly as printed in the DoD CMMC Assessment Guide, Level 1, which reprints it from NIST SP 800-171A (June 2018). An assessor examines artifacts, interviews people, and tests mechanisms to determine the result.

Examine

• System and information integrity policy
• Configuration management policy and procedures
• Procedures addressing malicious code protection
• Records of malicious code protection updates
• Malicious code protection mechanisms
• System security plan
• System configuration settings and associated documentation
• Record of actions initiated by malicious code protection mechanisms in response to malicious code detection
• Scan results from malicious code protection mechanisms
• System design documentation
• System audit logs and records
• Other relevant documents or records

Interview

• System or network administrators
• Personnel with information security responsibilities
• Personnel installing, configuring, and maintaining the system
• Personnel with responsibility for malicious code protection
• Personnel with configuration management responsibility

Test

• Organizational processes for employing, updating, and configuring malicious code protection mechanisms
• Organizational process for addressing false positives and resulting potential impact
• Mechanisms supporting or implementing employing, updating, and configuring malicious code protection mechanisms
• Mechanisms supporting or implementing malicious code scanning and subsequent actions