AT-1 Policy and Procedures
a. Develop, document, and disseminate to organization-defined personnel or roles: 1. Selection (one or more): organization-level; mission/business process-level; system-level awareness and training policy that: (a) Addresses purpose, scope, roles, responsibilities, management commitment, coordination among organizational entities, and compliance; and (b) Is consistent with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines; and 2. Procedures to facilitate the implementation of the awareness and training policy and the associated awareness and training controls; b. Designate an organization-defined official to manage the development, documentation, and dissemination of the awareness and training policy and procedures; and c. Review and update the current awareness and training: 1. Policy organization-defined frequency and following organization-defined events; and 2. Procedures organization-defined frequency and following organization-defined events.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, AT-1. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 in the compliance library.
Base controls and their enhancements. Which apply follows the baseline you are assessed against (for example FedRAMP Moderate or High, or the low, moderate and high baselines of SP 800-53B). Text in square brackets is a parameter your organisation sets.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- System security plan · HR system / LMS
- Privacy plan · HR system / LMS
- Awareness and training policy and procedures · HR system / LMS
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Awareness and training procedures in a.2 do not describe how literacy, role-based training and training records controls are carried out
- The awareness and training policy is not reviewed and updated after defined events such as new training requirements or significant incidents
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Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
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