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AC-16(06) Maintenance of Attribute Association

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

Title

Maintenance of Attribute Association

Control

Require personnel to associate and maintain the association of [Assignment: organization-defined security and privacy attributes] with [Assignment: organization-defined subjects and objects] in accordance with [Assignment: organization-defined security and privacy policies].

Discussion

Maintaining attribute association requires individual users (as opposed to the system) to maintain associations of defined security and privacy attributes with subjects and objects.

Parameters

ac-16.6_prm_1: organization-defined security and privacy attributes
ac-16.6_prm_2: organization-defined subjects and objects
ac-16.6_prm_3: organization-defined security and privacy policies
ac-16.06_odp.01: security attributes
ac-16.06_odp.02: security attributes
ac-16.06_odp.03: privacy attributes
ac-16.06_odp.04: privacy attributes
ac-16.06_odp.05: subjects
ac-16.06_odp.06: objects
ac-16.06_odp.07: subjects
ac-16.06_odp.08: objects
ac-16.06_odp.09: security policies
ac-16.06_odp.10: privacy policies

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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