FedRAMP High
PS - Personnel Security

FedRAMP High PS-9: Position Descriptions (PS-9)

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

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 35 controls across 25 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

SOC 2 · 4 controls

  • SOC2-CC1.3 CC1.3 Structures, reporting lines, authorities and responsibilities (COSO principle 3)
  • SOC2-CC1.5 CC1.5 Accountability for internal control responsibilities (COSO principle 5)
  • SOC2-CC5.3 CC5.3 Deploying controls through policies and procedures (COSO principle 12)
  • SOC2-P6.4 P6.4 Privacy commitments from vendors and third parties

NIST SP 800-181 · 3 controls

PCI DSS 4.0 · 3 controls

  • 1.1.2 1.1.2 Requirement 1 roles and responsibilities assigned
  • 12.1.4 12.1.4 Executive ownership of information security formally assigned
  • 6.1.2 6.1.2 Requirement 6 roles and responsibilities assigned

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · 2 controls

  • 7.2 Competence
  • A.3.2 AI roles and responsibilities
  • ANSSI-HYG-39 Designate an Information System Security Officer and Make the Role Known
  • CPS220-10 Designated Risk Management Function
  • CPS230-14 Board Setting of Senior Manager Roles and Responsibilities

APRA CPS 234 · 1 control

  • CPS234-14 Definition of Information Security Roles and Responsibilities
  • SEC11-BP08 Build a program that embeds security ownership in workload teams
  • AUCDR-IS-STEP1 Step 1 - Define and implement security governance for CDR data
  • GS-1 Align organization roles, responsibilities and accountabilities

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control

HIPAA Security Rule · 1 control

ISO 22301:2019 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.2 Information security roles and responsibilities

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.2 Information security roles and responsibilities

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 6.3.1 Internal organization
  • NIST-CSF-GV.RR-02 Roles, responsibilities, and authorities related to cybersecurity risk management are established, communicated, understood, and enforced

NIST SP 800-218 · 1 control

  • PS-9 PS-9 Position Descriptions
  • PS-9 PS-9 Position Descriptions
  • PS-9 PS-9 Position Descriptions

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in PS - Personnel Security

You are reading one control. How much of FedRAMP High have you already done?

FedRAMP High PS-9 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of FedRAMP High your existing evidence covers. Hold C5 (Germany) and 119 of 410 FedRAMP High controls already carry evidence.

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