PM-2 PM · Program Management

Information Security Program Leadership Role

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Appoint a senior agency information security officer with the mission and resources to coordinate, develop, implement, and maintain an organization-wide information security program.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

The senior agency information security officer is an organizational official. For federal agencies (as defined by applicable laws, executive orders, regulations, directives, policies, and standards), this official is the senior agency information security officer. Organizations may also refer to this official as the senior information security officer or chief information security officer.

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-2 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. a senior agency information security officer is appointed;
  2. the senior agency information security officer is provided with the mission and resources to coordinate an organization-wide information security program;
  3. the senior agency information security officer is provided with the mission and resources to develop an organization-wide information security program;
  4. the senior agency information security officer is provided with the mission and resources to implement an organization-wide information security program;
  5. the senior agency information security officer is provided with the mission and resources to maintain an organization-wide information security program.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Information security program plan; procedures addressing program plan development and implementation; procedures addressing program plan reviews and updates; procedures addressing coordination of the program plan with relevant entities; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with information security program planning and plan implementation responsibilities; senior information security officer; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

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-2. 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
  • procedures addressing program plan development and implementation
  • procedures addressing program plan reviews and updates
  • procedures addressing coordination of the program plan with relevant entities

Other Records

  • other relevant documents or records