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Syteca cooperates closely with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a world-renowned non-regulatory agency providing detailed guidelines for improving information security within federal agencies and associated organizations. As an all-in-one insider risk management platform, Syteca can help you build data protection systems and digital infrastructure protection systems that comply with key requirements of NIST 800-53.
Syteca is listed in NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-18 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector.
As a non-regulatory agency of the US Department of Commerce, NIST focuses on researching and establishing general guidelines and standards that federal agencies must meet.
In particular, NIST Special Publication 800-53: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations is a set of guidelines and recommendations for architecting and managing secure information systems. Compliance with NIST 800-53 security control guidelines is the main key to achieving compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) requirements.
Since 2005, NIST has released several revisions of SP 800-53. The latest is Revision 5.1 [PDF], published in 2020. The control baselines that have previously been included in NIST Special Publication 800-53 have been relocated to its companion publication — NIST Special Publication 800-53B.
NIST 800-53B
Security control baselines
Privacy control baseline
High-impact
Moderate-impact
Low-impact
The Syteca platform is the ultimate NIST 800-53 compliance software that covers the core security controls and makes it easy to secure your organization’s critical assets and sensitive data.
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
AC – Access Control
AT – Awareness and Training
AU – Audit and Accountability
CA – Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring
CM – Configuration Management
CP – Contingency Planning
IA – Identification and Authentication
IR – Incident Response
MA – Maintenance
MP – Media Protection
PE – Physical and Environmental Protection
PL – Planning
PM – Program Management
PS – Personnel Security
PT – Personally Identifiable Information Processing and Transparency
RA – Risk Assessment
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.
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.
The Access Control family includes a wide range of security controls for ensuring the proper level of access management. Syteca includes a number of features that can help you meet critical NIST 800-53 access control requirements, including:
Syteca offers a robust set of privileged access management capabilities, enabling you to granularly manage access permissions for different users, roles, and user groups. Other access management features provided by Syteca include manual access approval, time-limited access permissions, one-time passwords, two-factor authentication, and secondary authentication for shared accounts.
The NIST Audit and Accountability control family covers security practices required for establishing a reliable accountability system within an organization. NIST recommends performing detailed and continuous audits to detect possible cybersecurity threats and investigate incidents. Auditing and accountability are necessary to pass a NIST compliance audit or prove compliance with other security standards and regulations.
Syteca is a comprehensive user activity monitoring solution that can provide you with a detailed audit log of every event that happens on a monitored endpoint. The platform can help you meet the key NIST 800-53 audit logging requirements as it covers many security controls within the Audit and Accountability control family, including:
The Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring control family includes nine security controls for assessing, authorizing, and monitoring employees and various system connections through the infrastructure. To achieve this, NIST recommends developing and implementing a risk management strategy for establishing an assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy and procedures.
Syteca offers functionality for securely authorizing users and entities as well as continuously monitoring their actions within the IT infrastructure.
The Identification and Authentication control family covers a set of security controls necessary for uniquely identifying each user and device accessing your network. The ability to identify each user accessing the system and then reliably connect them to a specific resource is crucial for detecting potential threats and investigating security incidents.
As a universal NIST compliance software, Syteca provides a number of identity and access management features for ensuring a high level of user identity verification, including secondary authentication and multi-factor authentication (MFA). These capabilities cover the following NIST Identification and Authentication controls:
The Incident Response control family covers one of the most important parts of ensuring the protection of sensitive data: what needs to be done in case of a security incident. Syteca provides actionable tools to meet the requirements of the following controls:
Any changes to cybersecurity system configurations can pose the threat of compromising its performance, introducing new vulnerabilities to it, or deploying malicious code. The Maintenance control family describes ways to ensure that your security system undergoes maintenance without any harm or undesired changes. Here’s how you can secure maintenance activities with Syteca:
The Planning controls of NIST 800-53 help organizations create a robust security management system and control any security-related activity. Systematic and centralized collection of data about cyber protection is the foundation for policies and plans required by this family of NIST 800-53 controls. You can easily add data collected by Syteca to your pipelines:
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
SWIFT CSP
SOX
FISMA
GDPR
NIST 800-53
NIST 800-171
NERC
GLBA
NISPOM Change 2 and H.R. 666
SOC 2
HIPAA
DORA
NIS2
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