PL-11 Baseline Tailoring

Description

The concept of tailoring allows organizations to specialize or customize a set of baseline controls by applying a defined set of tailoring actions. Tailoring actions facilitate such specialization and customization by allowing organizations to develop security and privacy plans that reflect their specific mission and business functions, the environments where their systems operate, the threats and vulnerabilities that can affect their systems, and any other conditions or situations that can impact their mission or business success. Tailoring guidance is provided in SP 800-53B. Tailoring a control baseline is accomplished by identifying and designating common controls, applying scoping considerations, selecting compensating controls, assigning values to control parameters, supplementing the control baseline with additional controls as needed, and providing information for control implementation. The general tailoring actions in SP 800-53B can be supplemented with additional actions based on the needs of organizations. Tailoring actions can be applied to the baselines in SP 800-53B in accordance with the security and privacy requirements from FISMA [PDF], PRIVACT [PDF] , and OMB A-130 [PDF]. Alternatively, other communities of interest adopting different control baselines can apply the tailoring actions in SP 800-53B to specialize or customize the controls that represent the specific needs and concerns of those entities.

Applicability

The information resource owner, or designee, is responsible for ensuring that all requirements of this Control are satisfied.

Implementation

1. The agency head may employ standards for the cost-effective information security of information, information resources, and applications within or under the supervision of that state agency that are more stringent than the standards the department prescribes under this section if the more stringent standards:
   1. contain at least the applicable standards issued by the department; and/or
   2. are consistent with applicable federal law, policies, and guidelines issued under state rule, industry standards, best practices, or deemed necessary to adequately protect the information held by the state agency.

Revision History

Last Updated: February 21, 2025

Previous Versions:

• June 29, 2023
• May 31, 2022
• March 25, 2021
• September 16, 2019