Get audit-ready for NIST 800-53
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · Security and Privacy Controls
Comprehensive catalog of security and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations, providing a structured approach to safeguarding operations, assets, individuals, and the nation.
NIST 800-53What is NIST 800-53?
Comprehensive catalog of security and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations, providing a structured approach to safeguarding operations, assets, individuals, and the nation.
Who it applies to
US federal information systems, and any organisation that has adopted it voluntarily as a control library. Most commercial organisations meet it indirectly, through a programme such as FedRAMP that draws its baselines from it.
How the standard is organised
A large catalogue organised into control families, from which programmes select baselines by impact level rather than applying the whole thing.
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NIST 800-53 on the Bitkosh platform
The 1014 NIST 800-53 controls sit in one workspace with gap assessment, evidence collection and your readiness score, and shared controls count towards the equivalent requirement in the other 47 ready frameworks at the same time — so a second framework costs a fraction of the first.
How the platform worksSample controls
Six controls from the platform's control library, chosen because they are the most specific to this framework.
- AU-12(4)Query Parameter Audits of Personally Identifiable Information
Provide and implement the capability for auditing the parameters of user query events for data sets containing personally identifiable information.
Audit and Accountability - SI-19(4)Removal, Masking, Encryption, Hashing, or Replacement of Direct Identifiers
Remove, mask, encrypt, hash, or replace direct identifiers in a dataset.
System and Information Integrity - SC-21Secure Name/Address Resolution Service (Recursive or Caching Resolver)
Request and perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources.
System and Communications Protection - SC-7(22)Separate Subnets for Connecting to Different Security Domains
Implement separate network addresses to connect to systems in different security domains.
System and Communications Protection - IA-12(6)Accept Externally-proofed Identities
Accept Externally-proofed Identities: Accept externally-proofed identities at [identity assurance level].
Identification and Authentication - IA-5(17)Presentation Attack Detection for Biometric Authenticators
Employ presentation attack detection mechanisms for biometric-based authentication.
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