SC-35 External Malicious Code Identification
System and Communications Protection
Description
Include system components that proactively seek to identify network-based malicious code or malicious websites.
Supplemental Guidance
External malicious code identification differs from decoys in SC-26 in that the components actively probe networks, including the Internet, in search of malicious code contained on external websites. Like decoys, the use of external malicious code identification techniques requires some supporting isolation measures to ensure that any malicious code discovered during the search and subsequently executed does not infect organizational systems. Virtualization is a common technique for achieving such isolation.
Changes from Rev 4
Title changed from 'Honeyclients' to 'External Malicious Code Identification' in Rev 5.
MITRE ATT&CK Techniques (3)
ATT&CK v20.0Techniques this control mitigates in the CTID mapping of SP 800-53, made for ATT&CK 16.1 and carried to v20.0. See them all in the ATT&CK matrix.