NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Public Draft Available for Review and Comment

NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Public Draft Available for Review and Comment

By Nancy Rand
Posted in Security
On April 10, 2020

NIST has released SP 800-53 Revision 5 Public draft for review and comment. https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-53/rev-5/draft

NIST is separating the controls catalog from the control baselines-SP800-53 Controls catalog, which will be online, and SP800-53B “bravo” Controls Baselines.

The following are available at https://go.usa.gov/xdevj

  • Draft SP 800-53 Revision 5
  • Summary of Changes from Revision 4
  • Comment Template
  • Open Security Control Assessment Language (XML, JSON, YAML) and .xlsx versions of the controls

The public can comment from through May 15, 2020.

Send comments and questions to sec-cert@nist.gov

NIST has provided a FAQ site for review:  https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/risk-management/faqs

NIST will release updated mappings to ISO27000, Cybersecurity Framework and Privacy Framework after Revision 5 is published as final.

 

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