COMPLIANCE
NIST Risk Assessment ChecklistThe Department of Defense has given qualified contractors until the end of the year to comply with the NIST 800-171 requirements.
NIST Risk Assessment Checklist
Last Updated January 2019
The Department of Defense has given qualified contractors until the end of the year to comply with the NIST 800-171 requirements.
1. Access Control
- Limit information system access to authorized users.
- Separate the duties of individuals to reduce the risk of malevolent collusion.
- Limit unsuccessful login attempts.
- Require encryption and authentication of various devices (including mobile devices), and route remote access through managed access control points.
2. Awareness and Training
- Educate managers, systems administrators and users about security risks associated with their activities and applicable policies, standards and procedures.
- Provide security awareness training on recognizing and reporting potential indicators of insider threat.
3. Audit and Accountability
- Use automated mechanisms to integrate and correlate audit and reporting processes.
- Support on-demand analysis and reporting.
4. Configuration Management
- Limit the types of programs user can install.
- Control and monitor all user-installed software.
5. Identification and Authentication
- Prevent reuse of identifiers for a defined period.
- Disable identifiers after a defined period of inactivity.
- Enforce minimum password complexity, i.e., “smart passwords” and implement a dual authentication solution like DUO.
6. Incident Response
- Develop and test an incident response plan
7. Maintenance
- Ensure equipment removed off-site is sanitized of any CUI.
- Require multifactor authentication to establish nonlocal maintenance.
8. Media Protection
- Protect (i.e., physically control and securely store) information system media (paper and digital) containing CUI.
- Sanitize or destroy information system media containing CUI before disposal or release for reuse.
9. Personnel Security
- Screen individuals prior to authorizing access to systems containing CUI.
10. Physical Protection
- Maintain audit logs of physical access.
- Control and manage physical access devices.
11. Risk Assessment
- Scan for and remediate vulnerabilities in the information system and applications.
12. Security Assessment
- Periodically assess and monitor the security controls for effectiveness in their applications.
- Develop and implement plans of action designed to correct deficiencies and reduce/eliminate vulnerabilities.
13. System and Communications Protection
- Separate user functionality from information system management functionality.
- Implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of CUI during transmission.
- Control and monitor the use of Voice over Internet Protocol technologies.
14. System and Information Integrity
- Update malicious code protection mechanisms when new releases are available.
- Identify unauthorized use of the information system.
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