CMA_C1540 - Ensure security categorization is approved
Additional metadata
Name/Id: CMA_C1540 / CMA_C1540 Category: Documentation Title: Ensure security categorization is approved Ownership: Customer Description: The customer is responsible for ensuring the security categorization decision is reviewed and approved by the authorizing official (AO) or designated representative responsible. Requirements: The customer is responsible for implementing this recommendation.
Mode
All
Type
BuiltIn
Preview
False
Deprecated
False
Effect
Default Manual Allowed Manual, Disabled
RBAC role(s)
none
Rule aliases
none
Rule resource types
IF (1) Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions
Compliance
The following 7 compliance controls are associated with this Policy definition 'Ensure security categorization is approved' (6c79c3e5-5f7b-a48a-5c7b-8c158bc01115)
The organization:
a. Categorizes information and the information system in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance;
b. Documents the security categorization results (including supporting rationale) in the security plan for the information system; and
c. Ensures that the security categorization decision is reviewed and approved by the authorizing official or authorizing official designated representative.
Supplemental Guidance: Clearly defined authorization boundaries are a prerequisite for effective security categorization decisions. Security categories describe the potential adverse impacts to organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals if organizational information and information systems are comprised through a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Organizations conduct the security categorization process as an organization-wide activity with the involvement of chief information officers, senior information security officers, information system owners, mission/business owners, and information owners/stewards. Organizations also consider the potential adverse impacts to other organizations and, in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, potential national-level adverse impacts. Security categorization processes carried out by organizations facilitate the development of inventories of information assets, and along with CM-8, mappings to specific information system components where information is processed, stored, or transmitted. Related controls: CM-8, MP-4, RA-3, SC-7.
Control Enhancements: None.
References: FIPS Publication 199; NIST Special Publications 800-30, 800-39, 800-60.
The organization:
a. Categorizes information and the information system in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance;
b. Documents the security categorization results (including supporting rationale) in the security plan for the information system; and
c. Ensures that the security categorization decision is reviewed and approved by the authorizing official or authorizing official designated representative.
Supplemental Guidance: Clearly defined authorization boundaries are a prerequisite for effective security categorization decisions. Security categories describe the potential adverse impacts to organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals if organizational information and information systems are comprised through a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Organizations conduct the security categorization process as an organization-wide activity with the involvement of chief information officers, senior information security officers, information system owners, mission/business owners, and information owners/stewards. Organizations also consider the potential adverse impacts to other organizations and, in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, potential national-level adverse impacts. Security categorization processes carried out by organizations facilitate the development of inventories of information assets, and along with CM-8, mappings to specific information system components where information is processed, stored, or transmitted. Related controls: CM-8, MP-4, RA-3, SC-7.
Control Enhancements: None.
References: FIPS Publication 199; NIST Special Publications 800-30, 800-39, 800-60.
The organization:
a. Categorizes information and the information system in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance;
b. Documents the security categorization results (including supporting rationale) in the security plan for the information system; and
c. Ensures that the security categorization decision is reviewed and approved by the authorizing official or authorizing official designated representative.
Supplemental Guidance: Clearly defined authorization boundaries are a prerequisite for effective security categorization decisions. Security categories describe the potential adverse impacts to organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals if organizational information and information systems are comprised through a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Organizations conduct the security categorization process as an organization-wide activity with the involvement of chief information officers, senior information security officers, information system owners, mission/business owners, and information owners/stewards. Organizations also consider the potential adverse impacts to other organizations and, in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, potential national-level adverse impacts. Security categorization processes carried out by organizations facilitate the development of inventories of information assets, and along with CM-8, mappings to specific information system components where information is processed, stored, or transmitted. Related controls: CM-8, MP-4, RA-3, SC-7.
Control Enhancements: None.
References: FIPS Publication 199; NIST Special Publications 800-30, 800-39, 800-60.
a. Categorize the system and information it processes, stores, and transmits;
b. Document the security categorization results, including supporting rationale, in the security plan for the system; and
c. Verify that the authorizing official or authorizing official designated representative reviews and approves the security categorization decision.