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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Advanced

NIST SP 800-60

NIST guide mapping types of information and systems to security categories.

Definition

SP 800-60 provides provisional impact levels for common information types (for example financial, personnel, or law enforcement data) to support FIPS 199 categorization. Organizations adjust provisional levels based on their context.

Example

An analyst uses SP 800-60 Volume II to find the provisional impact level for personnel records.

Exam tip

Use SP 800-60 when identifying information types during categorization.

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