Download or read book Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations Building Effective Security Assessment Plans NIST SP 800 53A Revision 1 written by nist and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Publication 800-53A, Revision 1 provides guidelines for developing security assessment plans and associated security control assessment procedures that are consistent with Special Publication 800-53, Revision 3, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systemsand Organizations, August 2009 (including updates as of 05-01-2010). NIST has been working in partnership with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Committee onNational Security Systems (CNSS) to develop a common information security framework for the federal government and its contractors. The updated security assessment guideline incorporates best practices in informationsecurity from the United States Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Civil agencies and includes security control assessment procedures for both national security and non national security systems. Theguideline for developing security assessment plans is intended to support a wide variety of assessment activities in all phases of the system development life cycle including development, implementation, and operation. Theimportant changes described in Special Publication 800-53A, Revision 1, are part of a larger strategic initiative to focus on enterprise-wide, near real-time risk management; that is, managing risks from information systems in dynamicenvironments of operation that can adversely affect organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation. The increasedflexibility in the selection of assessment methods, assessment objects, and depth and coverage attribute values empowers organizations to place the appropriate emphasis on the assessment process at every stage in the system development life cycle. [Supersedes NIST SP 800-53A (July 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=51209]

Download or read book NIST Special Publication 800 53A Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations written by Nist and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Hard copy of the NIST Special Publication 800-53A Revision 1 Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations. The guidelines apply to the security controls defined in Special Publication 800-53 (as amended), Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. You need to get the SP 800-53 to effectively use this document. The purpose of this publication is to provide guidelines for building effective security assessment plans and a comprehensive set of procedures for assessing the effectiveness of security controls employed in information systems supporting the executive agencies of the federal government. The guidelines have been developed to help achieve more secure information systems within the federal government by:Enabling more consistent, comparable, and repeatable assessments of security controls withreproducible results;Facilitating more cost-effective assessments of security controls contributing to thedetermination of overall control effectiveness;Promoting a better understanding of the risks to organizational operations, organizationalassets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation resulting from the operation and useof federal information systems; andCreating more complete, reliable, and trustworthy information for organizational officials tosupport risk management decisions, reciprocity of assessment results, information sharing,and FISMA complianceDisclaimer This hardcopy is not published by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the US Government or US Department of Commerce. The publication of this document should not in any way imply any relationship or affiliation to the above named organizations and Government.

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Download or read book Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of NIST Special Publication 800-53A is to provide guidelines for building effective security assessment plans and procedures to enable the assessment of security controls employed in information systems supporting the executive agencies of the federal government. Organizations should use this publication in conjunction with an approved system security plan to create a viable security assessment plan for producing and compiling the information necessary to determine the effectiveness of the security controls employed within the information system. The assessment procedures should be used as a starting point for and as input to the security assessment. SP800-53A guidelines are applicable to all federal information systems other than those systems designated as national security systems as defined in 44 U.S.C., Section 3542. The guidelines have been broadly developed from a technical perspective to complement similar guidelines for national security systems. This publication is intended to serve a diverse group of information system and information security professionals, including individuals with information system and security management and oversight responsibilities, integration responsibilities, operational responsibilities, and security assessment and monitoring responsibilities.

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