How does EchelonGraph detect NIST 800-53 SA-11 violations?

EchelonGraph automatically detects NIST 800-53 SA-11 violations using scanner rule NIST-SA-011. The scanner checks cloud infrastructure configurations in real-time and flags non-compliant resources.

What audit questions are asked for NIST 800-53 SA-11?

Show your SAST + DAST + dependency scan integration in CI. What is the merge-gate policy on critical findings? When was the last external pen test? Show the report. What is the average time from vulnerability detection to remediation?

🏛️NIST 800-53 SA-11Rule: NIST-SA-011high

Developer Testing and Evaluation

Description

Require developers to perform unit, integration, system, and regression testing including static analysis (SAST) and dynamic analysis (DAST) of code.

⚠️ Risk Impact

Application-layer vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, authentication bypass) cause the majority of public-facing breaches. Without SAST/DAST in CI, vulnerabilities ship to production.

🔍 How EchelonGraph Detects This

NIST-SA-011Automated scanner rule

EchelonGraph's Tier 1 Cloud Scanner automatically checks for this condition across all connected cloud accounts. Violations are flagged as high-severity findings with remediation guidance.

🔧 Remediation

Integrate SAST (Semgrep, Snyk, SonarQube) + dependency scanning (Snyk, GitHub Dependabot) + DAST (OWASP ZAP, Burp Enterprise) into CI/CD. Gate merges on critical findings. Conduct quarterly external pen tests.

💀 Real-World Attack Scenario

A government contractor's web application had a SQL injection vulnerability in a public-facing form. The vulnerability was in code merged in 2022 without SAST scanning. A bug-bounty researcher found it 18 months later — the contractor was lucky a hostile actor hadn't found it first. Remediation + customer notification + audit cost: $1.8M.

💰 Cost of Non-Compliance

Application-layer vulnerabilities cause 26% of breaches (Verizon DBIR 2024). Average post-launch vuln discovery: $4.45M (IBM 2024). PCI-6.5 violations: $5K-$100K/month.

📋 Audit Questions

1.Show your SAST + DAST + dependency scan integration in CI.
2.What is the merge-gate policy on critical findings?
3.When was the last external pen test? Show the report.
4.What is the average time from vulnerability detection to remediation?

🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

T1190 — Exploit Public-Facing Application

⚡ Common Pitfalls

⛔SAST in audit-mode only (findings produced but not blocking)
⛔Dependency scanning that ignores test/dev dependencies (lateral attack surface)
⛔Annual pen test as substitute for continuous testing

📈 Business Value

Shift-left security testing catches issues at 50-100× lower cost than post-deployment discovery. Material for any product with a public attack surface.

⏱️ Effort Estimate

Manual

60-120 hours initial CI integration + tuning

With EchelonGraph

EchelonGraph correlates SAST/DAST findings to live deployment state; tracks remediation SLA

🔗 Cross-Framework References

PCI-6.5ISO27001-A.14.2.1

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