NIST800-RA-3 RA-3 Risk Assessment
NIST800-RA-3 in NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 (NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, Release 5.2.0). All NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls held. Open NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
RA-3 Risk Assessment. a. Conduct a risk assessment, including: 1. Identifying threats to and vulnerabilities in the system; 2. Determining the likelihood and magnitude of harm from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of the system, the information it processes, stores, or transmits, and any related information; and 3. Determining the likelihood and impact of adverse effects on individuals arising from the processing of personally identifiable information; b. Integrate risk assessment results and risk management decisions from the organization and mission or business process perspectives with system-level risk assessments; c. Document risk.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
SOC 2
- SOC2-CC3.1 CC3.1 Objectives specified clearly enough to assess risk (COSO principle 6) (closest match)
- SOC2-CC3.2 CC3.2 Identifying and analysing risks to objectives (COSO principle 7) (closest match)
- SOC2-CC3.3 CC3.3 Considering fraud risk (COSO principle 8) (closest match)
- SOC2-CC3.4 CC3.4 Identifying and assessing significant changes (COSO principle 9) (closest match)
HIPAA Security Rule
- 164.306 Security Standards: General Rules (closest match)
- 164.308(a)(1)(i) Security Management Process (Standard) (closest match)
- 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) Risk Analysis (Required) (closest match)
- 164.308(b)(1) Business Associate Contracts and Other Arrangements (Standard) (closest match)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: RA - Risk Assessment), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the risk-assessment policy
- the risk-assessment reports
- the risk-treatment records