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MA-05(03) Citizenship Requirements for Classified Systems

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged MA part of MA-5

Title

Citizenship Requirements for Classified Systems

Control

Verify that personnel performing maintenance and diagnostic activities on a system processing, storing, or transmitting classified information are U.S. citizens.

Discussion

Personnel who conduct maintenance on organizational systems may be exposed to classified information during the course of their maintenance activities. If access to classified information on organizational systems is restricted to U.S. citizens, the same restriction is applied to personnel performing maintenance on those systems.

Related controls

ps-3

Assessment objective

MA-05(03) personnel performing maintenance and diagnostic activities on a system processing, storing, or transmitting classified information are U.S. citizens.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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