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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Intermediate

RMF Prepare Step

RMF step establishing context and priorities at organization and system levels before categorization.

Definition

Prepare activities include assigning risk management roles, establishing a risk management strategy, identifying common controls, performing organization-wide risk assessment, and identifying system boundaries, stakeholders, and information types. Added in Rev. 2, it aims to make the remaining steps more efficient.

Example

The agency identifies common controls offered by its enterprise cloud platform before system teams begin.

Exam tip

Prepare is step 0 or 1 depending on the source; it comes before Categorize.

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