PS-6 Access Agreements
a. Develop and document access agreements for organizational systems; b. Review and update the access agreements organization-defined frequency; and c. Verify that individuals requiring access to organizational information and systems: 1. Sign appropriate access agreements prior to being granted access; and 2. Re-sign access agreements to maintain access to organizational systems when access agreements have been updated or organization-defined frequency.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, PS-6. 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
- Test of Organizational processes for reviewing, updating, and re-signing access agreements; mechanisms supporting the reviewing, updating, and re-signing of access agreements · Vendor register / contract repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Personnel security policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Personnel security procedures · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Procedures addressing access agreements for organizational information and systems · Vendor register / contract repository
- Access control policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Access control procedures · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Access agreements (including non-disclosure agreements, acceptable use agreements, rules of behavior, and conflict-of-interest agreements) · Vendor register / contract repository
- Documentation of access agreement reviews, updates, and re-signing · Vendor register / contract repository
- System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Privacy plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Individuals receive system access without signing access agreements such as nondisclosure or acceptable use agreements
- Users are not required to re-sign access agreements after the agreements are updated or at the defined frequency
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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