AT-2(4) Literacy Training and Awareness | Suspicious Communications and Anomalous System Behavior
Provide literacy training on recognizing suspicious communications and anomalous behavior in organizational systems using organization-defined indicators of malicious code.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, AT-2(4). 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
- Literacy training and awareness policy · HR system / LMS
- Procedures addressing literacy training and awareness implementation · HR system / LMS
- Literacy training and awareness curriculum · HR system / LMS
- Literacy training and awareness materials · HR system / LMS
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Literacy training does not teach staff to recognize suspicious communications or anomalous system behavior
- The indicators of malicious code used in this training were never defined
Do this for your whole sheet
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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