PS-9 PS · Personnel Security

Position Descriptions

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Incorporate security and privacy roles and responsibilities into organizational position descriptions.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Specification of security and privacy roles in individual organizational position descriptions facilitates clarity in understanding the security or privacy responsibilities associated with the roles and the role-based security and privacy training requirements for the roles.

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-9 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. security roles and responsibilities are incorporated into organizational position descriptions;
  2. privacy roles and responsibilities are incorporated into organizational position descriptions.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Personnel security policy; personnel security procedures; procedures addressing position descriptions; security and privacy position descriptions; system security plan; privacy plan; privacy program plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with personnel security responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; organizational personnel with human capital management responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for managing position descriptions].

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-9. 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
  • privacy plan
  • privacy program plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for managing position descriptions

Other Records

  • personnel security procedures
  • procedures addressing position descriptions
  • security and privacy position descriptions
  • other relevant documents or records