RA-2: Security Categorization
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2019-05-20 15:48:11.984914
Status
Statements
The organization:
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| RA-2a. | Categorizes information and the information system in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance; |
| RA-2b. | Documents the security categorization results (including supporting rationale) in the security plan for the information system; and |
| RA-2c. | Ensures that the authorizing official or authorizing official designated representative reviews and approves the security categorization decision. |
Additional Guidance
Clearly defined authorization boundaries are a prerequisite for effective security categorization decisions. Security categories describe the potential adverse impacts to organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals if organizational information and information systems are comprised through a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Organizations conduct the security categorization process as an organization-wide activity with the involvement of chief information officers, senior information security officers, information system owners, mission/business owners, and information owners/stewards. Organizations also consider the potential adverse impacts to other organizations and, in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, potential national-level adverse impacts. Security categorization processes carried out by organizations facilitate the development of inventories of information assets, and along with CM-8, mappings to specific information system components where information is processed, stored, or transmitted.