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Managing Content of PKI Trust Stores

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

For PKI-based authentication, employ an organization-wide methodology for managing the content of PKI trust stores installed across all platforms, including networks, operating systems, browsers, and applications.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

An organization-wide methodology for managing the content of PKI trust stores helps improve the accuracy and currency of PKI-based authentication credentials across the organization.

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 IA-5(14) 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. an organization-wide methodology for managing the content of PKI trust stores is employed across all platforms, including networks, operating systems, browsers, and applications for PKI-based authentication.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Identification and authentication policy; procedures addressing authenticator management; system security plan; organizational methodology for managing content of PKI trust stores across installed all platforms; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; enterprise security architecture documentation; enterprise architecture documentation; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with authenticator management responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators; system developers].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing PKI-based authenticator management capability; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the PKI trust store capability].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control IA-5 — see the IA-5(14) 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: (1)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (6)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (6)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IA-5(14). 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

  • Identification and authentication policy
  • system security plan

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation
  • enterprise security architecture documentation
  • enterprise architecture documentation

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing PKI-based authenticator management capability
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the PKI trust store capability

Other Records

  • procedures addressing authenticator management
  • organizational methodology for managing content of PKI trust stores across installed all platforms
  • other relevant documents or records