Control 3.4.4

★What This Means in Plain English

Before making any change to your systems, you must evaluate how it could affect security. This means testing changes in a non-production environment and assessing whether they introduce new vulnerabilities or weaken existing controls.

✓How Petronella Implements This Control

Petronella Technology Group implements this control through:

• Security impact analysis required as part of every change request in the change management process
• Test/staging environments for validating changes before production deployment
• Vulnerability scanning after significant changes using Sophos XDR
• Security team review required for changes affecting CUI environments
• ComplianceArmor security impact analysis template used for all change requests

🔎Assessment Guidance

Assessors will review change requests for evidence of security impact analysis, verify that a test environment exists and is used, check that security team review is required for significant changes, and confirm that post-change vulnerability scanning occurs.

⚠Common Implementation Gaps

• Changes implemented without any security impact analysis
• No test environment for validating changes
• Security team not involved in change review
• Impact analysis performed after implementation rather than before
• No documented security impact analysis template or process

⇄Cross-Framework Mapping