Using Syteca to meet NIST 800-53 requirements
Syteca helps you comply with NIST 800-53 security controls and secure your sensitive data by providing user activity monitoring and auditing, identity and access management, and incident response capabilities.
NIST 800-53 Revision 5.1 provides detailed guidelines for the above-mentioned security and privacy controls that cover 20 control families.
NIST 800-53 control families
AT – Awareness and Training
AU – Audit and Accountability
CA – Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring
CM – Configuration Management
CP – Contingency Planning
IA – Identification and Authentication
PE – Physical and Environmental Protection
PT – Personally Identifiable Information
Processing and Transparency
SA – System and Services Acquisition
SC – System and Communications Protection
SI – System and Information Integrity
SR – Supply Chain Risk Management
For each of these families, there’s a large list of NIST 800-53 controls that includes security controls with different impact levels. However, organizations don’t need to implement all of these controls to comply with FISMA and NIST SP 800-53. They need to follow the baseline recommendations for architecting information security systems but are free to choose which security tools and solutions to use for that purpose.
- Access Control (AC)
- Audit and Accountability (AU)
- Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring (CA)
- Identification and Authentication (IA)
- Incident Response (IR)
- Maintenance (MA)
- Planning (PL)
With Syteca, you can implement the necessary security controls for NIST 800-53 control families including:
As a NIST compliance tool, Syteca fully covers all of the controls in the Audit and Accountability family while also covering the majority of security controls in other control families.