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system-specific security control

Definitions:

  A security or privacy control for an information system that is implemented at the system level and is not inherited by any other information system.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2022 from OMB Circular A-130 (2016)
NIST SP 800-137 under System-Specific Security Control from CNSSI 4009

  A security control for an information system that has not been designated as a common control or the portion of a hybrid control that is to be implemented within an information system.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-30 Rev. 1 under System-Specific Security Control
NIST SP 800-39 under System-Specific Security Control
NISTIR 8170 under System-Specific Security Control