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NIST SP 800-53 Learning Center

PM-3 — Information Security and Privacy Resources

Read the official control and assessment content, then use the separately labeled Bare Metal Cyber perspective to connect the requirement to implementation, evidence, and sustained operation.

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PM — Program Management · NIST SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0

Privacy
Official NIST control content

Control statement

  1. a.Include the resources needed to implement the information security and privacy programs in capital planning and investment requests and document all exceptions to this requirement;
  2. b.Prepare documentation required for addressing information security and privacy programs in capital planning and investment requests in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards; and
  3. c.Make available for expenditure, the planned information security and privacy resources.
Official NIST discussion

Discussion

Organizations consider establishing champions for information security and privacy and, as part of including the necessary resources, assign specialized expertise and resources as needed. Organizations may designate and empower an Investment Review Board or similar group to manage and provide oversight for the information security and privacy aspects of the capital planning and investment control process.

Original Bare Metal Cyber perspective

From control text to operational evidence

Use Information Security and Privacy Resources as a testable risk decision. Translate the official statement into accountable people, repeatable processes, configured technology, and evidence that demonstrates the outcome over time. In this family, pay particular attention to enterprise program governance, accountability, resources, metrics, and organization-wide risk decisions.

Implementation workflow

  • Define the control boundary, responsible owner, inherited portions, and systems or processes in scope.
  • Resolve each organization-defined parameter before declaring the control implemented.
  • Document how the implementation satisfies every clause of the official control statement.
  • Collect evidence as a normal byproduct of operation rather than only before an assessment.
  • Review exceptions, changes, and monitoring results on a risk-based cadence.

Evidence examples

  • program charters and policies
  • governance meeting records
  • risk and performance metrics
  • resource and responsibility assignments

Common failure patterns

  • program metrics count activity instead of outcomes
  • system-level risks never reach enterprise governance
  • responsibilities assigned without authority or resources
  • privacy and security managed in separate silos

Questions practitioners should ask

  • What risk decision is this control intended to support in this system?
  • Which parts are implemented locally, inherited, shared, or not applicable—and what evidence supports that decision?
  • Do the documented narrative, deployed configuration, operating process, and collected evidence agree?
  • What event or threshold requires the implementation to be reviewed or changed?
Official NIST SP 800-53A content

Assessment objectives and methods

Show the assessment objective
  1. PM-03a.
    1. PM-03a.[01]the resources needed to implement the information security program are included in capital planning and investment requests, and all exceptions are documented;
    2. PM-03a.[02]the resources needed to implement the privacy program are included in capital planning and investment requests, and all exceptions are documented;
  2. PM-03b.
    1. PM-03b.[01]the documentation required for addressing the information security program in capital planning and investment requests is prepared in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards;
    2. PM-03b.[02]the documentation required for addressing the privacy program in capital planning and investment requests is prepared in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards;
  3. PM-03c.
    1. PM-03c.[01]information security resources are made available for expenditure as planned;
    2. PM-03c.[02]privacy resources are made available for expenditure as planned.

Examine

  • Information security program plan
  • Exhibit 300
  • Exhibit 53
  • business cases for capital planning and investment
  • procedures for capital planning and investment
  • documentation of exceptions to capital planning requirements
  • other relevant documents or records

Interview

  • Organizational personnel with information security program planning responsibilities
  • organizational personnel with privacy program planning responsibilities
  • organizational personnel responsible for capital planning and investment
  • organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
  • organizational personnel with privacy responsibilities

Test

  • Organizational processes for capital planning and investment
  • organizational processes for business case, Exhibit 300, and Exhibit 53 development
  • mechanisms supporting the capital planning and investment process
Official relationships

Related controls

These relationships come from the official OSCAL catalog. They indicate useful dependencies or context, not automatic inheritance or equivalence.

Source record

Authoritative sources