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Use of Defined Profiles

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Conform to the following profiles for identity management [identity management profiles].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations define profiles for identity management based on open identity management standards. To ensure that open identity management standards are viable, robust, reliable, sustainable, and interoperable as documented, the Federal Government assesses and scopes the standards and technology implementations against applicable laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidelines.

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-8(4) 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. identity management profiles are defined;
  2. there is conformance with <IA-08(04)_ODP identity management profiles> for identity management.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Identification and authentication policy; system security plan; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system audit records; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

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

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing identification and authentication capabilities; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing conformance with profiles].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control IA-8 — see the IA-8(4) 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) (2) (4)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (4)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (4)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IA-8(4). 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

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing identification and authentication capabilities
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing conformance with profiles

Other Records

  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records