Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

Citation: NIST, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (Special Pub. 800-53, revision 3).

Overview
NIST SP 800-53, revision 3 was published in August 2009. It contains the catalog of security controls and technical guidelines that federal agencies will use to protect federal information and information systems, and is an integral part of the unified information security framework for the entire federal government.

The security controls within revision 3 provide updated security controls developed by the Joint Task Force Transformation Initiative Interagency Working Group members that included NIST, CNSS, DOD, and ODNI with specific information from databases of known cyber attacks and threat information.