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Classified Information Requiring Special Protection

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Verify that access to classified information requiring special protection is granted only to individuals who:

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Classified information that requires special protection includes collateral information, Special Access Program (SAP) information, and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Personnel security criteria reflect applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, 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 PS-6(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. access to classified information requiring special protection is granted only to individuals who have a valid access authorization that is demonstrated by assigned official government duties;
  2. access to classified information requiring special protection is granted only to individuals who satisfy associated personnel security criteria;
  3. access to classified information requiring special protection is granted only to individuals who have read, understood, and signed a non-disclosure agreement.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Personnel security policy; procedures addressing access agreements for organizational information and systems; access agreements; access authorizations; personnel security criteria; signed non-disclosure agreements; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with personnel security responsibilities; organizational personnel who have signed non-disclosure agreements; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for access to classified information requiring special protection].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control PS-6 — see the PS-6(2) 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)

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-6(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

  • Personnel security policy
  • system security plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for access to classified information requiring special protection

Other Records

  • procedures addressing access agreements for organizational information and systems
  • access agreements
  • access authorizations
  • personnel security criteria
  • signed non-disclosure agreements
  • other relevant documents or records