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assessment-assets missing in POAM's local-definitions

Open CyberDaedalus00 opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug

In circumstances where a POAM is provided without a System Security Plan (SSP), for circumstances where no OSCAL-based SSP exists, or is not delivered with the POA&M, there is no means to specify the definitions of components and assessment-platforms used in the assessment and referenced by an origin's actor as the source of the information. As a result there is no means to resolve/lookup details about the referenced actor.

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Expected behavior (i.e. solution)

The local-definition of the POAM should be revised to contain an assessment-assets field that would enable definitions for both components or assessment-platforms used in the assessment to be defined so that references can be resolved.

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CyberDaedalus00 avatar May 27 '22 17:05 CyberDaedalus00

To correct this assessment-assets needs to be added to local-definitions in the POAM model to allow for the assessment tooling to be cross-referenced. This should have the same structure as the local-definitions/assessment-assets allowed in the OSCAL assessment-results model.

david-waltermire avatar May 31 '22 15:05 david-waltermire