NIST 800-53
Over 30,000 cyber security incidents were reported to federal agencies in the United States in the fiscal year 2022-23 – a five percent reduction from the year before (http://tinyurl.com/2s3msja8). All federal agencies need to be compliant with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). FISMA is a federal law that requires US government agencies to create, document, and implement an information security and protection program. NIST 800-53 is a cybersecurity standard and guidelines that help federal agencies meet the requirements set by FISMA. The NIST 800-53 framework is developed by the National Institute of Standards in Technology. To summarize, the NIST 800-53 framework helps federal agencies to become FISMA compliant. In this section, we will cover the following topics:
- What is the NIST 800-53 framework?
- List of control families in the NIST 800-53 framework
- Vulnerability detection use case
