Discuss the role of NIST in the FISMA legislation.
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NIST is charged with developing and issuing standards, guidelines, and other publications to direct how federal agencies will implement applicable federal laws.
NIST's role is to establish the specific form of the response. Under that mandate, it has developed several Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) to specify and elaborate on the implementation requirements for FISMA. The primary applicable Standard is entitled FIPS 200. This Standard, along with the accompanying FIPS that is used to classify the material that falls under FISMA, entitled FIPS 199, defines all of the general requirements for satisfying FISMA requirements. The controls that underlie those general requirements are specified in the NIST 800-53 Standard.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).