NIST SP 800-53

Full Title

Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations

Context

• This page is addressed to the contexts of the evolving standard.
  • NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4 was published on 2013-04
• The final public draft of Revision 4 was published on 2020-03 - the most notable change is to broaden the scope from federal systems to systems in general. Another change was to merge privacy and security so that each was addressed in each section.

Contents

After the Introduction and discussion of the fundamentals the following set of controls was delineated in section 3. The bolded items are analysed in the sections betow.

1. ACCESS CONTROL
2. AWARENESS AND TRAINING
3. AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
4. ASSESSMENT, AUTHORIZATION, AND MONITORING
5. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
6. CONTINGENCY PLANNING
7. IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION
8. INCIDENT RESPONSE
9. MAINTENANCE
10. MEDIA PROTECTION
11. PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
12. PLANNING
13. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
14. PERSONNEL SECURITY
15. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING AND TRANSPARENCY
16. RISK ASSESSMENT
17. SYSTEM AND SERVICES ACQUISITION
18. SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION
19. SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY
20. SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

• IA-1 POLICY AND PROCEDURES - must be documented
• IA-2 IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION (ORGANIZATIONAL USERS) - In scope for enterprises, but out-of-scope for regular users
• IA-3 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION - In scope for authentication

References

• Reference page for 800-53 with other NIST privacy documents