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SI-12(2) SI · System and Information Integrity

Minimize Personally Identifiable Information in Testing, Training, and Research

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Use the following techniques to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for research, testing, or training: [organization-defined techniques].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations can minimize the risk to an individual’s privacy by employing techniques such as de-identification or synthetic data. Limiting the use of personally identifiable information throughout the information life cycle when the information is not needed for research, testing, or training helps reduce the level of privacy risk created by a system. Risk assessments as well as applicable laws, regulations, and policies can provide useful inputs to determining the techniques to use and when to use them.

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 SI-12(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. techniques used to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for research are defined;
  2. techniques used to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for testing are defined;
  3. techniques used to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for training are defined;
  4. <SI-12(02)_ODP[01] techniques> are used to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for research;
  5. <SI-12(02)_ODP[02] techniques> are used to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for testing;
  6. <SI-12(02)_ODP[03] techniques> are used to minimize the use of personally identifiable information for training.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and information integrity policy; system and information integrity procedures; personally identifiable information processing policy; personally identifiable information processing procedures; federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and operational requirements applicable to minimizing the use of personally identifiable information in testing, training, and research; policy for the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research; procedures for the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research; documentation supporting minimization policy implementation (e.g., templates for testing, training, and research); data sets used for testing, training, and research; system security plan; privacy plan; privacy impact assessment; privacy risk assessment documentation; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with information and records management, retention, and disposition responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; network administrators; system developers; personnel with IRB responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research; automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control SI-12 — see the SI-12(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 SI-12(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

  • System and information integrity policy
  • personally identifiable information processing policy
  • federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and operational requirements applicable to minimizing the use of personally identifiable information in testing, training, and research
  • policy for the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research
  • documentation supporting minimization policy implementation (e.g., templates for testing, training, and research)
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research
  • automated mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research

Other Records

  • system and information integrity procedures
  • personally identifiable information processing procedures
  • procedures for the minimization of personally identifiable information used in testing, training, and research
  • data sets used for testing, training, and research
  • privacy impact assessment
  • privacy risk assessment documentation
  • other relevant documents or records