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Personnel Transfer

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Personnel transfer applies when reassignments or transfers of individuals are permanent or of such extended duration as to make the actions warranted. Organizations define actions appropriate for the types of reassignments or transfers, whether permanent or extended. Actions that may be required for personnel transfers or reassignments to other positions within organizations include returning old and issuing new keys, identification cards, and building passes; closing system accounts and establishing new accounts; changing system access authorizations (i.e., privileges); and providing for access to official records to which individuals had access at previous work locations and in previous system accounts.

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 PS-5 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. transfer or reassignment actions to be initiated following transfer or reassignment are defined;
  2. the time period within which transfer or reassignment actions must occur following transfer or reassignment is defined;
  3. personnel or roles to be notified when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization is/are defined;
  4. time period within which to notify organization-defined personnel or roles when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization is defined;
  5. the ongoing operational need for current logical and physical access authorizations to systems and facilities are reviewed and confirmed when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization;
  6. <PS-05_ODP[01] transfer or reassignment actions> are initiated within <PS-05_ODP[02] time period following the formal transfer action>;
  7. access authorization is modified as needed to correspond with any changes in operational need due to reassignment or transfer;
  8. <PS-05_ODP[03] personnel or roles> are notified within <PS-05_ODP[04] time period>.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Personnel security policy; procedures addressing personnel transfer; records of personnel transfer actions; list of system and facility access authorizations; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

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

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for personnel transfer; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing personnel transfer notifications; mechanisms for disabling system access/revoking authenticators].

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

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PS-5. 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

  • Personnel security policy
  • system security plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for personnel transfer
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing personnel transfer notifications
  • mechanisms for disabling system access/revoking authenticators

Other Records

  • procedures addressing personnel transfer
  • records of personnel transfer actions
  • list of system and facility access authorizations
  • other relevant documents or records