ARTIFACTS
PS: PERSONNEL SECURITY
What's On This Page
Each control family has a page dedicated to presenting all of the artifacts associated with the controls and control enhancements in that family. This is a consolidated view of the artifacts organized in a way to make the information usable. From here you can navigate to the individual control pages where the artifacts associated with each control or control enhancement are displayed with the control. You can use the Links Panels to select the individual controls or control enhancements you want to work with.
Supplement the artifacts here with other relevent documents and records dictated by your risk-based cybersecurity program and your information supply chain requirements.
The Source of the Artifacts
The control information comes from NIST Special Publication 800-53R4, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizationsand Special Publication and NIST Special Publication 800-53AR4, Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations Building Effective Assessment Plans. We've normalized the artifact names and annotated them with information useful in understanding these artifacts in the context of your digital enterprise, information supply chain, and security architecture.
Essential Artifacts for Risk-Based Cybersecurity Programs
This section includes core documents for risk-based cybersecurity; the POLICY & PROCEDURES document for Personnel Security (PS); and documents that are widely used in the assessment of controls and control enhancements in the Personnel Security (PS) family. Policy and Procedure documents from control families are in CAPS and identified with their two letter code.
| CORE ARTIFACTS |
| WIDELY USED ARTIFACTS FOR PERSONNEL SECURITY (PS) |
| PERSONNEL SECURITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (PS) |
| Personnel Security policy |
| Information system design documentation |
| Information system configuration settings and associated documentation |
| Information system audit records |
Security Authorization Package Documents:
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| ESSENTIALS |
| ACCESS CONTROL POLICY & PROCEDURES (AC) |
| Asset Inventory |
| AUDIT & ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (AU) | Configuration Management Plan |
| CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT POLICY & PROCEDURES (CM) |
Contingency Plan
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| CONTINGENCY PLANNING POLICY & PROCEDURES (CP) |
| Continuous Monitoring Strategy |
| Continuous Monitoring Plan |
| Enterprise Architecture (EA) |
| IDENTIFICATION & AUTHENTICATION POLICY & PROCEDURES (IA) |
| INCIDENT RESPONSE POLICY & PROCEDURES (IR) |
| INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM PLAN (PM) |
| MEDIA PROTECTION POLICY & PROCEDURES (MP) |
| PERSONNEL SECURITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (PS) |
| PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY & PROCEDURES (PE) |
| Privacy Impact Assessment |
| Privacy Program Plan |
| Risk Assessment |
| RISK ASSESSMENT POLICY & PROCEDURES (RA) |
| SECURITY ASSESSMENT & AUTHORIZATION POLICY & PROCEDURES (CA) |
| SECURITY AWARENESS AND TRAINING POLICY & PROCEDURES (AT) |
| Security Configurations |
| SECURITY PLANNING POLICY & PROCEDURES (PL) |
| SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION POLICY & PROCEDURES (SC) |
| SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (SI) |
| SYSTEM AND SERVICES ACQUISITION POLICY & PROCEDURES (SA) |
| System Interconnection Agreements |
| SYSTEM MAINTENANCE POLICY & PROCEDURES (MA) |
Policy & Procedures
Here you'll find a catalog of Personnel Security (PS) related policies and procedures for managing access to your digital enterprise and information supply chain. Select those that enable your risk-based cybersecurity program.
| POLICES & PROCEDURES | APPLICABLE CONTROL(S) |
| POLICIES | |
| Access control policy | PS-3 (3) |
| Personnel security policy | PS-2 PS-3 PS-3 (1) PS-3 (2) PS-3 (3) PS-4 PS-4 (1) PS-4 (2) PS-5 PS-6 PS-6 (2) PS-6 (3) PS-7 PS-8 |
| Personnel security POLICY & PROCEDURES | PS-1 |
| PROCEDURES | |
| Procedures addressing access agreements for organizational information and information systems | PS-6 PS-6 (2) PS-6 (3) |
| Procedures addressing personnel sanctions | PS-8 |
| Procedures addressing personnel screening | PS-3 PS-3 (1) PS-3 (2) PS-3 (3) |
| Procedures addressing personnel termination | PS-4 PS-4 (1) PS-4 (2) |
| Procedures addressing personnel transfer | PS-5 |
| Procedures addressing position categorization | PS-2 |
| Procedures addressing third-party personnel security | PS-7 |
Evidence, Records & Artifacts
Here you'll find a catalog of Personnel Security (PS) related policies and procedures for managing access to your digital enterprise and information supply chain. Select those that enable your risk-based cybersecurity program.
| ARTIFACT | APPLICABLE CONTROL(S) |
| Access agreements | PS-6 PS-6 (2) PS-6 (3) |
| Access authorizations | PS-6 (2) |
| Acquisition documents | PS-7 |
| Appropriate codes of federal regulations | PS-2 |
| Automated notifications of employee terminations | PS-4 (2) |
| Compliance monitoring process | PS-7 |
| Information system configuration settings and associated documentation | PS-4 (2) |
| Information system design documentation | PS-4 (2) |
| Personnel security criteria | PS-6 (2) |
| Records of access agreement reviews and updates | PS-6 |
| Records of access authorizations | PS-3 (3) |
| Records of exit interviews | PS-4 |
| Records of formal sanctions | PS-8 |
| Records of personnel termination actions | PS-4 PS-4 (2) |
| Records of personnel transfer actions | PS-5 |
| Records of position risk designation reviews and updates | PS-2 |
| Records of screened personnel | PS-3 PS-3 (1) PS-3 (2) PS-3 (3) |
| Records of terminated or revoked authenticators/credentials | PS-4 |
| Rules of behavior | PS-8 |
| Screening criteria | PS-3 (3) |
| Service-level agreements | PS-7 |
| Signed nondisclosure agreements | PS-6 (2) |
| Signed post-employment acknowledgement forms | PS-4 (1) PS-6 (3) |
Personnel Security Related Lists
These are the Personnel Security (PS) related lists you may need to support your security program. For the lists applicable to your systems and informations supply chain you should know the source of the list and the data it contains; how the lists are generated, where they are stored, and how they are maintained, and how to get the when you have an incident, an incident investigation or an audit.
| LIST | APPLICABLE CONTROL(S) |
| List of applicable, legally binding post-employment requirements | PS-4 (1) |
| List of applicable, legally binding post-employment requirements | PS-6 (3) |
| List of information system accounts | PS-4 |
| List of information system and facility access authorizations | PS-5 |
| List of personnel security requirements | PS-7 |
| List of risk designations for organizational positions | PS-2 |