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SA-11(06) Attack Surface Reviews

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged SA part of SA-11

Title

Attack Surface Reviews

Control

Require the developer of the system, system component, or system service to perform attack surface reviews.

Discussion

Attack surfaces of systems and system components are exposed areas that make those systems more vulnerable to attacks. Attack surfaces include any accessible areas where weaknesses or deficiencies in the hardware, software, and firmware components provide opportunities for adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities. Attack surface reviews ensure that developers analyze the design and implementation changes to systems and mitigate attack vectors generated as a result of the changes. The correction of identified flaws includes deprecation of unsafe functions.

Related controls

sa-15

Assessment objective

SA-11(06) the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to perform attack surface reviews.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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