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AC-16(07) Consistent Attribute Interpretation

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.1.1+u4
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unchanged AC part of AC-16

Title

Consistent Attribute Interpretation

Control

Provide a consistent interpretation of security and privacy attributes transmitted between distributed system components.

Discussion

To enforce security and privacy policies across multiple system components in distributed systems, organizations provide a consistent interpretation of security and privacy attributes employed in access enforcement and flow enforcement decisions. Organizations can establish agreements and processes to help ensure that distributed system components implement attributes with consistent interpretations in automated access enforcement and flow enforcement actions.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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