ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
During control selection for a new HR system that stores Social Security numbers, the security categorization results in a FIPS 199 moderate impact rating and the moderate security baseline is chosen. Under NIST SP 800-53B, when should the privacy control baseline be applied?
Only when the Authorizing Official explicitly requests the privacy controls as an optional overlay.
In place of the security baseline for any low-impact system that handles PII.
Whenever the information system processes PII, regardless of its FIPS 199 impact rating.
Only if the system is categorized with a high confidentiality impact level.
NIST SP 800-53B specifies a separate privacy control baseline that is triggered by the presence of personally identifiable information (PII), not by the system's confidentiality, integrity, or availability impact level. Therefore, any system that processes, stores, or transmits PII-such as an HR application holding Social Security numbers-must implement the privacy baseline in addition to the appropriate security baseline. The privacy baseline does not replace the security baseline, nor is it restricted to high-impact systems or applied solely at the discretion of an Authorizing Official.
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Selection and Approval of Framework, Security, and Privacy Controls
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