id: "PL-04(01)" title: "Social Media and External Site/Application Usage Restrictions" family: "PL" family_name: "Planning" sort_id: "pl-04.01" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "PL-04" enhancement: True


Statement

Include in the rules of behavior, restrictions on:

Use of social media, social networking sites, and external sites/applications;

Posting organizational information on public websites; and

Use of organization-provided identifiers (e.g., email addresses) and authentication secrets (e.g., passwords) for creating accounts on external sites/applications.

Guidance

Social media, social networking, and external site/application usage restrictions address rules of behavior related to the use of social media, social networking, and external sites when organizational personnel are using such sites for official duties or in the conduct of official business, when organizational information is involved in social media and social networking transactions, and when personnel access social media and networking sites from organizational systems. Organizations also address specific rules that prevent unauthorized entities from obtaining non-public organizational information from social media and networking sites either directly or through inference. Non-public information includes personally identifiable information and system account information.

Assessment Objective: the rules of behavior include restrictions on the use of social media, social networking sites, and external sites/applications;

Assessment Objective: the rules of behavior include restrictions on posting organizational information on public websites;

Assessment Objective: the rules of behavior include restrictions on the use of organization-provided identifiers (e.g., email addresses) and authentication secrets (e.g., passwords) for creating accounts on external sites/applications.

Security and privacy planning policy

procedures addressing rules of behavior for system users

rules of behavior

training policy

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with responsibility for establishing, reviewing, and updating rules of behavior

organizational personnel with responsibility for literacy training and awareness and role-based training

organizational personnel who are authorized users of the system and have signed rules of behavior

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities

Organizational processes for establishing rules of behavior

mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the establishment of rules of behavior