id: "AC-21" title: "Information Sharing" family: "AC" family_name: "Access Control" sort_id: "ac-21" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" enhancements: - ac-21.1 - ac-21.2
Enable authorized users to determine whether access authorizations assigned to a sharing partner match the information’s access and use restrictions for {{ insert: param, ac-21_odp.01 }} ; and
Employ {{ insert: param, ac-21_odp.02 }} to assist users in making information sharing and collaboration decisions.
Guidance
Information sharing applies to information that may be restricted in some manner based on some formal or administrative determination. Examples of such information include, contract-sensitive information, classified information related to special access programs or compartments, privileged information, proprietary information, and personally identifiable information. Security and privacy risk assessments as well as applicable laws, regulations, and policies can provide useful inputs to these determinations. Depending on the circumstances, sharing partners may be defined at the individual, group, or organizational level. Information may be defined by content, type, security category, or special access program or compartment. Access restrictions may include non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Information flow techniques and security attributes may be used to provide automated assistance to users making sharing and collaboration decisions.
Assessment Objective: authorized users are enabled to determine whether access authorizations assigned to a sharing partner match the information’s access and use restrictions for {{ insert: param, ac-21_odp.01 }};
Assessment Objective: {{ insert: param, ac-21_odp.02 }} are employed to assist users in making information-sharing and collaboration decisions.
Access control policy
procedures addressing user-based collaboration and information sharing (including restrictions)
system design documentation
system configuration settings and associated documentation
list of users authorized to make information-sharing/collaboration decisions
list of information-sharing circumstances requiring user discretion
non-disclosure agreements
acquisitions/contractual agreements
system security plan
privacy plan
privacy impact assessment
security and privacy risk assessments
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel responsible for information-sharing/collaboration decisions
organizational personnel with responsibility for acquisitions/contractual agreements
system/network administrators
organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
Automated mechanisms or manual process implementing access authorizations supporting information-sharing/user collaboration decisions