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SA-15(12) SA · System and Services Acquisition

Minimize Personally Identifiable Information

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Require the developer of the system or system component to minimize the use of personally identifiable information in development and test environments.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations can minimize the risk to an individual’s privacy by using techniques such as de-identification or synthetic data. Limiting the use of personally identifiable information in development and test environments helps reduce the level of privacy risk created by a system.

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 SA-15(12) 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. the developer of the system or system component is required to minimize the use of personally identifiable information in development and test environments.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and services acquisition policy; system and services acquisition procedures; procedures addressing the development process; procedures addressing the minimization of personally identifiable information in testing, training, and research; personally identifiable information processing policy; procedures addressing the authority to test with personally identifiable information; standards and tools; solicitation documentation; service level agreements; acquisition contracts for the system or services; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with acquisition responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system developer].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for the minimization of personally identifiable information in development and test environments; mechanisms to facilitate the minimization of personally identifiable information in development and test environments].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control SA-15 — see the SA-15(12) 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

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (3)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SA-15(12). 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

  • System and services acquisition policy
  • personally identifiable information processing policy
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for the minimization of personally identifiable information in development and test environments
  • mechanisms to facilitate the minimization of personally identifiable information in development and test environments

Other Records

  • system and services acquisition procedures
  • procedures addressing the development process
  • procedures addressing the minimization of personally identifiable information in testing, training, and research
  • procedures addressing the authority to test with personally identifiable information
  • standards and tools
  • solicitation documentation
  • service level agreements
  • acquisition contracts for the system or services
  • other relevant documents or records