Certification and Accreditation

Certification and Accreditation

Certification and Accreditation (C&A or CnA) is a process for implementing information security. It is a systematic procedure for evaluating, describing, testing and authorizing systems prior to or after a system is in operation. The C&A process is used extensively in the U.S. Federal Government. Some C&A processes include FISMA, NIACAP, DIACAP and DCID 6/3.

NIST Special Publication 800-37, "Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems," transforms the traditional Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process into the six-step Risk management framework (RMF).

Definitions

Certification is a comprehensive evaluation of the technical and non-technical security controls (safeguards) of an information system to support the accreditation process that establishes the extent to which a particular design and implementation meets a set of specified security requirements.[1]

Accreditation is the formal declaration by a senior agency official (Designated Accrediting Authority (DAA) or Principal Accrediting Authority (PAA)) that an information system is approved to operate at an acceptable level of risk, based on the implementation of an approved set of technical, managerial, and procedural security controls (safeguards).

References

  1. ^ National Information Assurance Glossary (CNSS Instruction 4009), Published by the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) Working Group, 26 April 2010

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