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Social Engineering and Mining

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Provide literacy training on recognizing and reporting potential and actual instances of social engineering and social mining.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Social engineering is an attempt to trick an individual into revealing information or taking an action that can be used to breach, compromise, or otherwise adversely impact a system. Social engineering includes phishing, pretexting, impersonation, baiting, quid pro quo, thread-jacking, social media exploitation, and tailgating. Social mining is an attempt to gather information about the organization that may be used to support future attacks. Literacy training includes information on how to communicate the concerns of employees and management regarding potential and actual instances of social engineering and data mining through organizational channels based on established policies and procedures.

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(3) 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. literacy training on recognizing potential and actual instances of social engineering is provided;
  2. literacy training on reporting potential and actual instances of social engineering is provided;
  3. literacy training on recognizing potential and actual instances of social mining is provided;
  4. literacy training on reporting potential and actual instances of social mining is provided.

Examine

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

Interview

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

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control AT-2 — see the AT-2(3) 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(3). 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
  • literacy training and awareness policy

Other Records

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