NIST plans to issue draft security-guidance companion publication for control baselines

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning to separate its control baselines, and overlay and mapping guidance from the latest revision of standards for data security and privacy used by federal agencies, and will create a companion document draft for comment when the final standards are released later this year.

“We have moved out our baselines and all of the tailoring guidance and the mapping tables, all of the support things that used to be [in 800-53] are...