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Practical Exercises

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Provide practical exercises in literacy training that simulate events and incidents.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Practical exercises include no-notice social engineering attempts to collect information, gain unauthorized access, or simulate the adverse impact of opening malicious email attachments or invoking, via spear phishing attacks, malicious web links.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for AT-2(1) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. practical exercises in literacy training that simulate events and incidents are provided.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System security plan; privacy plan; security awareness and training policy; procedures addressing security awareness training implementation; security awareness training curriculum; security awareness training materials; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel who receive literacy training and awareness; organizational personnel with responsibilities for security awareness training; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms implementing cyber-attack simulations in practical exercises].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control AT-2 — see the AT-2(1) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (2)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (2) (3)
  • Added: (4)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (2) (3)
  • Added: (4)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AT-2(1). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • System security plan
  • privacy plan
  • security awareness and training policy

Testing

  • Mechanisms implementing cyber-attack simulations in practical exercises

Other Records

  • procedures addressing security awareness training implementation
  • security awareness training curriculum
  • security awareness training materials
  • other relevant documents or records