OSCAL Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M)
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Definitions
A plan of action and milestones which identifies initial and residual risks, deviations, and disposition, such as those required by FedRAMP.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
Allows components, and inventory-items to be defined within the POA&M for circumstances where no OSCAL-based SSP exists, or is not delivered with the POA&M.
Describes an individual POA&M item.
The title or name for this POA&M item .
A human-readable description of POA&M item.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
Provides information about the publication and availability of the containing document.
A name given to the document, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
An entry in a sequential list of revisions to the containing document in reverse chronological order (i.e., most recent previous revision first).
A name given to the document revision, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
A location, with associated metadata that can be referenced.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A name given to the location, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A responsible entity which is either a person or an organization.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A category describing the kind of party the object describes.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
Defines a function assumed or expected to be assumed by a party in a specific situation.
A name given to the role, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
A summary of the role's purpose and associated responsibilities.
A collection of resources, which may be included directly or by reference.
An attribute, characteristic, or quality of the containing object expressed as a namespace qualified name/value pair. The value of a property is a simple scalar value, which may be expressed as a list of values.
A textual label that uniquely identifies a specific attribute, characteristic, or quality of the property's containing object.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A reference to a local or remote resource
Describes the type of relationship provided by the link. This can be an indicator of the link's purpose.
A textual label to associate with the link, which may be used for presentation in a tool.
A reference to a set of organizations or persons that have responsibility for performing a referenced role in the context of the containing object.
A reference to one or more roles with responsibility for performing a function relative to the containing object.
A representation of a cryptographic digest generated over a resource using a specified hash algorithm.
Additional commentary on the containing object.
Contact number by telephone.
A document identifier qualified by an identifier scheme. A document identifier provides a globally unique identifier with a cross-instance scope that is used for a group of documents that are to be treated as different versions of the same document. If this element does not appear, or if the value of this element is empty, the value of "document-id" is equal to the value of the "uuid" flag of the top-level root element.
Qualifies the kind of document identifier using a URI. If the scheme is not provided the value of the element will be interpreted as a string of characters.
A defined component that can be part of an implemented system.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A human readable name for the system component.
A description of the component, including information about its function.
Describes the operational status of the system component.
2 nested properties
A summary of the technological or business purpose of the component.
Information about the protocol used to provide a service.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A human readable name for the protocol (e.g., Transport Layer Security).
Where applicable this is the IPv4 port range on which the service operates.
Indicates the degree to which the a given control is implemented.
Identifies the implementation status of the control or control objective.
A type of user that interacts with the system based on an associated role.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A name given to the user, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
A summary of the user's purpose within the system.
Identifies a specific system privilege held by the user, along with an associated description and/or rationale for the privilege.
A human readable name for the privilege.
A summary of the privilege's purpose within the system.
A single managed inventory item within the system.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A summary of the inventory item stating its purpose within the system.
Identifies the parameter that will be set by the enclosed value.
A human-oriented, globally unique identifier with cross-instance scope that can be used to reference this system identification property elsewhere in this or other OSCAL instances. When referencing an externally defined system identification, the system identification must be used in the context of the external / imported OSCAL instance (e.g., uri-reference). This string should be assigned per-subject, which means it should be consistently used to identify the same system across revisions of the document.
Identifies the identification system from which the provided identifier was assigned.
A partition of a control's definition or a child of another part.
A name given to the part, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
Permits multiple paragraphs, lists, tables etc.
Parameters provide a mechanism for the dynamic assignment of value(s) in a control.
A short, placeholder name for the parameter, which can be used as a substitute for a value if no value is assigned.
Describes the purpose and use of a parameter
A formal or informal expression of a constraint or test
A textual summary of the constraint to be applied.
A prose statement that provides a recommendation for the use of a parameter.
Prose permits multiple paragraphs, lists, tables etc.
Presenting a choice among alternatives
Describes the number of selections that must occur. Without this setting, only one value should be assumed to be permitted.
Include all controls from the imported catalog or profile resources.
Used by the assessment plan and POA&M to import information about the system.
A local definition of a control objective for this assessment. Uses catalog syntax for control objective and assessment actions.
A human-readable description of this control objective.
A local definition of a control objective. Uses catalog syntax for control objective and assessment activities.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A human-readable description of this assessment method.
Identifies an assessment or related process that can be performed. In the assessment plan, this is an intended activity which may be associated with an assessment task. In the assessment results, this an activity that was actually performed as part of an assessment.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A human-readable description of this included activity.
The title for this included activity.
Represents a scheduled event or milestone, which may be associated with a series of assessment actions.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
The title for this task.
A human-readable description of this task.
The timing under which the task is intended to occur.
3 nested properties
The task is intended to occur on the specified date.
1 nested properties
The task is intended to occur within the specified date range.
2 nested properties
The task is intended to occur at the specified frequency.
2 nested properties
Identifies the controls being assessed and their control objectives.
A human-readable description of control objectives.
Used to select a control for inclusion/exclusion based on one or more control identifiers. A set of statement identifiers can be used to target the inclusion/exclusion to only specific control statements providing more granularity over the specific statements that are within the asessment scope.
Used to select a control objective for inclusion/exclusion based on the control objective's identifier.
Used when the assessment subjects will be determined as part of one or more other assessment activities. These assessment subjects will be recorded in the assessment results in the assessment log.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A human-readable description of intent of this assessment subject placeholder.
Identifies system elements being assessed, such as components, inventory items, and locations. In the assessment plan, this identifies a planned assessment subject. In the assessment results this is an actual assessment subject, and reflects any changes from the plan. exactly what will be the focus of this assessment. Any subjects not identified in this way are out-of-scope.
Indicates the type of assessment subject, such as a component, inventory, item, location, or party represented by this selection statement.
A human-readable description of the collection of subjects being included in this assessment.
Identifies a set of assessment subjects to include/exclude by UUID.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
Used to indicate the type of object pointed to by the uuid-ref within a subject.
A human-oriented identifier reference to a resource. Use type to indicate whether the identified resource is a component, inventory item, location, user, or something else.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
Used to indicate the type of object pointed to by the uuid-ref within a subject.
The title or name for the referenced subject.
Identifies the assets used to perform this assessment, such as the assessment team, scanning tools, and assumptions.
Captures an assessor's conclusions regarding the degree to which an objective is satisfied.
A determination of if the objective is satisfied or not within a given system.
3 nested properties
An indication as to whether the objective is satisfied or not.
The title for this objective status.
A human-readable description of the assessor's conclusions regarding the degree to which an objective is satisfied.
Describes an individual observation.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A human-readable description of this assessment observation.
The title for this observation.
Identifies the source of the finding, such as a tool, interviewed person, or activity.
The actor that produces an observation, a finding, or a risk. One or more actor type can be used to specify a person that is using a tool.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A pointer, by ID, to an externally-defined threat.
An identified risk.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
The title for this risk.
A human-readable summary of the identified risk, to include a statement of how the risk impacts the system.
An summary of impact for how the risk affects the system.
A log of all risk-related tasks taken.
1 nested properties
Used to indicate who created a log entry in what role.
Describes the status of the associated risk.
A collection of descriptive data about the containing object from a specific origin.
Describes either recommended or an actual plan for addressing the risk.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
Identifies whether this is a recommendation, such as from an assessor or tool, or an actual plan accepted by the system owner.
The title for this response activity.
A human-readable description of this response plan.
A partition of an assessment plan or results or a child of another part.
A textual label that uniquely identifies the part's semantic type.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.
A name given to the part, which may be used by a tool for display and navigation.
Permits multiple paragraphs, lists, tables etc.
A type 4 ('random' or 'pseudorandom') or type 5 UUID per RFC 4122.