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NIST guidance classifies security controls as Response:

The correct answer is B. Technical, Operational, Management. NIST guidance classifies security controls into three primary classes based on their nature and area of application: Technical, Operational, and Management.

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NIST guidance classifies security controls as Response:

Options

  • AProduction, development, and test.
  • BTechnical, Operational, Management.
  • CSystem specific, common, and hybrid.
  • DPeople, process, and technology

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    91% (21)
  • C
    4% (1)

Why each option

NIST guidance classifies security controls into three primary classes based on their nature and area of application: Technical, Operational, and Management.

AProduction, development, and test.

Production, development, and test refer to different environments or stages in a system's lifecycle, not the intrinsic classification of security controls themselves.

BTechnical, Operational, Management.Correct

NIST Special Publication 800-53 categorizes security controls as Technical (implemented by information systems), Operational (implemented by people), and Management (focused on the organization's risk management and oversight functions).

CSystem specific, common, and hybrid.

While NIST also classifies controls as system-specific, common, and hybrid, this categorizes them by their applicability, whereas Technical, Operational, and Management classifies them by their nature or type.

DPeople, process, and technology

People, process, and technology are general components of an organization's security posture, but not the specific classification used by NIST for its security controls.

Concept tested: NIST Security Control Classification (Nature/Type)

Source: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2020/09/18/SP800-53r5-final.pdf

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#NIST#Security Controls#Control Classification#Technical Operational Management

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