I’ve see CCEs being incorporated into the DISA STIGs and USGCB XCCDF content.  
CCEs could be used to map to other regulatory regimes.
Following is a conceptually mapping of high level regulations to granular 
technical settings.

Regulatory – FISMA, HIPAA, NERC etc…
Controls – NIST 800-53, HITEC, CIP
DISA SRG/STIG – Mapping to Controls (CCI) in this case to NIST 800-53 rev.3.
CCE- Granular platform specific configuration.

SCAP repository contains CCE mappings to various content.
http://scaprepo.com

Red Hat CCE for REL5 “/etc/group file…”
http://www.scaprepo.com/view.jsp?id=CCE-3276-3  we can see that this setting 
impacts various controls for differing regulatory verticals.

NIST now maintains CCE at:
http://nvd.nist.gov/cce/
CCE mappings to NIST 800-53
http://nvd.nist.gov/cce.cfm


In the end CCEs could be used to attest assertions to compliance in a 
referenceable manner for C&A activities.


-ln

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn 
Wells
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: who uses CCE ids for RHEL guidance?

On 3/17/13 1:41 PM, Jeffrey Blank wrote:

A question for the list:



Who uses CCE identifiers (and for what)?



I find them (informally) useful since they provide a unique identifier

for a particular knob.  Of course, internal to the project, the XCCDF

Rule id fulfills a similar role, though we'll have both.



(I also have some reservations about CCE implementation and format, but

those are not related to this inquiry, nor am I soliciting for those!)



I'm simply curious about uses of CCE in RHEL security guidance,

particularly that which would be derived from the project.


Personally I never use them, or even talk about them. When going through 
compliance processes I've found C&A stakeholders want to know about their 
requirement, e.g. OS SRG or NIST 800-53 reference.
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