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id: "AC-16(07)" title: "Consistent Attribute Interpretation" family: "AC" family_name: "Access Control" sort_id: "ac-16.07" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "AC-16" enhancement: True

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Statement

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

Guidance

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.

Assessment Objective: a consistent interpretation of security attributes transmitted between distributed system components is provided;

Assessment Objective: a consistent interpretation of privacy attributes transmitted between distributed system components is provided.

Access control policies and procedures

procedures addressing consistent interpretation of security and privacy attributes transmitted between distributed system components

procedures addressing access enforcement

procedures addressing information flow enforcement

system design documentation

system configuration settings and associated documentation

system audit records

system security plan

privacy access control policy

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with responsibilities for providing consistent interpretation of security and privacy attributes used in access enforcement and information flow enforcement actions

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities

system developers

Mechanisms implementing access enforcement and information flow enforcement functions