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MNT-02.1: Automated Maintenance Activities

MNT 5 — Medium Protect

Automated mechanisms exist to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs.

Control Question: Does the organization use automated mechanisms to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs?

General (8)
US (4)
Framework Mapping Values
US FedRAMP R4 MA-2(2)
US FedRAMP R4 (high) MA-2(2)
US FedRAMP R5 (source) MA-2(2)
US FedRAMP R5 (high) (source) MA-2(2)

Capability Maturity Model

Level 0 — Not Performed

There is no evidence of a capability to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs.

Level 1 — Performed Informally

C|P-CMM1 is N/A, since a structured process is required to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs.

Level 2 — Planned & Tracked

C|P-CMM2 is N/A, since a well-defined process is required to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs.

Level 3 — Well Defined

Maintenance (MNT) efforts are standardized across the organization and centrally managed, where technically feasible, to ensure consistency. CMM Level 3 control maturity would reasonably expect all, or at least most, the following criteria to exist:

  • IT/cybersecurity personnel develop and disseminate formal practices to implement enterprise-wide capability to conduct secure and timely technology asset-specific maintenance operations, including preventative and reactionary maintenance operations.
  • Technology asset-related maintenance operations are centralized in terms of change management and governance. Local/regional practices fall under the broader enterprise-wide technology asset maintenance program.
  • Facilities management uses an enterprise-wide process to facilitate the secure and timely implementation of non-IT maintenance operations, including preventative and reactionary maintenance operations. Local/regional practices fall under the broader enterprise-wide facilities management program.
  • A Change Control Board (CCB), or similar function, centrally manages the process of IT and non-IT maintenance operations to reduce the chance of business interruptions from maintenance operations.
  • Maintenance controls are primarily administrative in nature (e.g., policies & standards) to manage change control processes associated with maintenance operations, but are assisted by technology-based tools to report on maintenance status (e.g., missing patches, outdated software versions, etc.).
Level 4 — Quantitatively Controlled

See C|P-CMM3. There are no defined C|P-CMM4 criteria, since it is reasonable to assume a quantitatively-controlled process is not necessary to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs.

Level 5 — Continuously Improving

See C|P-CMM4. There are no defined C|P-CMM5 criteria, since it is reasonable to assume a continuously-improving process is not necessary to schedule, conduct and document maintenance and repairs.

Assessment Objectives

  1. MNT-02.1_A01 automated mechanisms used to schedule maintenance, repair and replacement actions for the system, application and/or service are defined.
  2. MNT-02.1_A02 automated mechanisms used to conduct maintenance, repair and replacement actions for the system, application and/or service are defined.
  3. MNT-02.1_A03 automated mechanisms used to document maintenance, repair and replacement actions for the system, application and/or service are defined.
  4. MNT-02.1_A04 automated mechanisms are used to schedule maintenance, repair and replacement actions for the system, application and/or service.
  5. MNT-02.1_A05 automated mechanisms are used to conduct maintenance, repair and replacement actions for the system, application and/or service.
  6. MNT-02.1_A06 automated mechanisms are used to document maintenance, repair and replacement actions for the system, application and/or service.
  7. MNT-02.1_A07 up-to-date, accurate and complete records of all maintenance actions requested, scheduled, in process and completed are produced.
  8. MNT-02.1_A08 up-to-date, accurate and complete records of all repair actions requested, scheduled, in process and completed are produced.
  9. MNT-02.1_A09 up-to-date, accurate and complete records of all replacement actions requested, scheduled, in process and completed are produced.

Technology Recommendations

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