NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 HIGH
CA: Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring – NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5.1 HIGH

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 HIGH CA-6: CA-6 Authorization

a. Assign a senior official as the authorizing official for the system; b. Assign a senior official as the authorizing official for common controls available for inheritance by organizational systems; c. Ensure that the authorizing official for the system, before commencing operations: 1. Accepts the use of common controls inherited by the system; and 2. Authorizes the system to operate; d. Ensure that the authorizing official for common controls authorizes the use of those controls for inheritance by organizational systems; e. Update the authorizations [Assignment: organization-defined frequency].

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This control maps to 3 controls across 3 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

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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.

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