ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
During continuous monitoring, your monthly authenticated vulnerability scan on a production web server reveals a medium-impact security weakness that cannot be fully remediated during the next maintenance window. Under RMF guidance, what is the FIRST action you should take with respect to the Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M)?
Reclassify the finding as low impact and close it so it does not have to be tracked on the POA&M.
Pause system operation and request immediate reauthorization from the Authorizing Official before updating any documentation.
Create or update the POA&M entry detailing the weakness, planned corrective actions, responsible party, and target completion date.
Modify the System Security Plan to mark the affected control as not-applicable until the fix can be applied, noting it at the next annual review.
Whenever a weakness cannot be corrected immediately, NIST RMF requires that it be entered (or updated) on the Plan of Action and Milestones. The POA&M records the description of the deficiency, planned corrective actions, required resources, responsible individuals, and realistic completion dates. This establishes management visibility and allows progress to be tracked during subsequent continuous-monitoring cycles. Halting operations and seeking a new authorization is unnecessary for a single medium finding, and arbitrarily changing its applicability or severity simply to avoid tracking would violate RMF expectations.
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