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CA-07(01) Independent Assessment

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.1.1+u4
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Title

Independent Assessment

Control

Employ independent assessors or assessment teams to monitor the controls in the system on an ongoing basis.

Discussion

Organizations maximize the value of control assessments by requiring that assessments be conducted by assessors with appropriate levels of independence. The level of required independence is based on organizational continuous monitoring strategies. Assessor independence provides a degree of impartiality to the monitoring process. To achieve such impartiality, assessors do not create a mutual or conflicting interest with the organizations where the assessments are being conducted, assess their own work, act as management or employees of the organizations they are serving, or place themselves in advocacy positions for the organizations acquiring their services.

Assessment objective

CA-07(01) independent assessors or assessment teams are employed to monitor the controls in the system on an ongoing basis.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).