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AC-17(10) Authenticate Remote Commands

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged AC part of AC-17

Title

Authenticate Remote Commands

Control

Implement [Assignment: mechanisms] to authenticate [Assignment: remote commands].

Discussion

Authenticating remote commands protects against unauthorized commands and the replay of authorized commands. The ability to authenticate remote commands is important for remote systems for which loss, malfunction, misdirection, or exploitation would have immediate or serious consequences, such as injury, death, property damage, loss of high value assets, failure of mission or business functions, or compromise of classified or controlled unclassified information. Authentication mechanisms for remote commands ensure that systems accept and execute commands in the order intended, execute only authorized commands, and reject unauthorized commands. Cryptographic mechanisms can be used, for example, to authenticate remote commands.

Parameters

ac-17.10_odp.01: mechanisms
ac-17.10_odp.02: remote commands

Related controls

sc-12, sc-13, sc-23

Assessment objective

AC-17(10) [Assignment: mechanisms] are implemented to authenticate [Assignment: remote commands].

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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