PM-15 PM · Program Management

Security and Privacy Groups and Associations

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Establish and institutionalize contact with selected groups and associations within the security and privacy communities:

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Ongoing contact with security and privacy groups and associations is important in an environment of rapidly changing technologies and threats. Groups and associations include special interest groups, professional associations, forums, news groups, users’ groups, and peer groups of security and privacy professionals in similar organizations. Organizations select security and privacy groups and associations based on mission and business functions. Organizations share threat, vulnerability, and incident information as well as contextual insights, compliance techniques, and privacy problems consistent with 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 PM-15 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. contact is established and institutionalized with selected groups and associations within the security community to facilitate ongoing security education and training for organizational personnel;
  2. contact is established and institutionalized with selected groups and associations within the privacy community to facilitate ongoing privacy education and training for organizational personnel;
  3. contact is established and institutionalized with selected groups and associations within the security community to maintain currency with recommended security practices, techniques, and technologies;
  4. contact is established and institutionalized with selected groups and associations within the privacy community to maintain currency with recommended privacy practices, techniques, and technologies;
  5. contact is established and institutionalized with selected groups and associations within the security community to share current security information, including threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents;
  6. contact is established and institutionalized with selected groups and associations within the privacy community to share current privacy information, including threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Information security program plan; privacy program plan; risk management strategy; procedures for establishing and institutionalizing contacts with security and privacy groups and associations; lists or other records of contacts with and/or membership in security and privacy groups and associations; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with information security and privacy program planning and plan implementation responsibilities; organizational personnel responsible for establishing and institutionalizing contact with security and privacy groups and associations; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; personnel from selected groups and associations with which the organization has established and institutionalized contact].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for establishing and institutionalizing contact with security and privacy groups and associations; mechanisms supporting contact with security and privacy groups and associations].

Overlays

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

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

Not applicable at this tier.

HIGH

  • Base control: Added (beyond standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PM-15. 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

  • Information security program plan
  • privacy program plan
  • risk management strategy

Testing

  • Organizational processes for establishing and institutionalizing contact with security and privacy groups and associations
  • mechanisms supporting contact with security and privacy groups and associations

Other Records

  • procedures for establishing and institutionalizing contacts with security and privacy groups and associations
  • lists or other records of contacts with and/or membership in security and privacy groups and associations
  • other relevant documents or records