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AC-16(08) Association Techniques and Technologies

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged AC part of AC-16

Title

Association Techniques and Technologies

Control

Implement [Assignment: organization-defined techniques and technologies] in associating security and privacy attributes to information.

Discussion

The association of security and privacy attributes to information within systems is important for conducting automated access enforcement and flow enforcement actions. The association of such attributes to information (i.e., binding) can be accomplished with technologies and techniques that provide different levels of assurance. For example, systems can cryptographically bind attributes to information using digital signatures that support cryptographic keys protected by hardware devices (sometimes known as hardware roots of trust).

Parameters

ac-16.8_prm_1: organization-defined techniques and technologies
ac-16.08_odp.01: techniques and technologies
ac-16.08_odp.02: techniques and technologies

Related controls

sc-12, sc-13

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).