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NIST SP 800-172 Enhanced CUI Protection Center

03.02 — Awareness and Training

Study this CUI requirement family as a connected set of implementation decisions, evidence expectations, and assessment procedures.

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CUI requirement family

Awareness and Training

Use this family as a planning boundary, but assess every applicable requirement against the real CUI system boundary, inherited services, organization-defined parameters, and operational evidence.

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Requirements and assessment procedures.

Withdrawn records remain available and link to the requirements where their intent was incorporated or addressed.

03.02.01EActive

Advanced Literacy and Awareness Training

An effective way to detect APTs, address the cyber threat environment, and preclude successful attacks is to provide specific literacy training for individuals. Threat literacy training includes educating individuals on the various ways that APTs can infiltrate the organization (e.g., through websites, emails, pop-ups, articles, and social engineering) and describes techniques for recognizing suspicious emails, the u

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Literacy and Awareness Training Practical Exercises

Practical exercises include no-notice social engineering attempts to collect information, gain unauthorized access, or simulate the adverse impact of opening malicious email attachments or invoking malicious web links via spear phishing attacks. This requirement enhances SP 800-171 requirement 03.02.01.

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Literacy and Awareness Training Feedback

Training feedback includes literacy and role-based training results, which can indicate a potentially serious problem, especially the failures of personnel in critical roles. Managers should be made aware of such situations so that they can respond accordingly. Training feedback supports the evaluation and update of organizational training content and methodology. This requirement does not enhance a specific requirem

03.02.04EActive

Anti-Counterfeit Training

System components include hardware, software, and firmware components as well as the documentation for those components. This requirement is sourced to a control tailored out of the SP 800-53B .13 moderate baseline in SP 800-171.