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PS-7

PS-7: Third-party Personnel Security

The organization:

a: Establishes personnel security requirements including security roles and responsibilities for third-party providers;

b: Requires third-party providers to comply with personnel security policies and procedures established by the organization;

c: Documents personnel security requirements;

d: Requires third-party providers to notify [organization-defined personnel or roles] of any personnel transfers or terminations of third-party personnel who possess organizational credentials and/or badges, or who have information system privileges within [organization-defined time period]; and

e: Monitors provider compliance.

Supplemental

Third-party providers include, for example, service bureaus, contractors, and other organizations providing information system development, information technology services, outsourced applications, and network and security management. Organizations explicitly include personnel security requirements in acquisition-related documents. Third-party providers may have personnel working at organizational facilities with credentials, badges, or information system privileges issued by organizations. Notifications of third-party personnel changes ensure appropriate termination of privileges and credentials. Organizations define the transfers and terminations deemed reportable by security-related characteristics that include, for example, functions, roles, and nature of credentials/privileges associated with individuals transferred or terminated.

CIA Levels
Confidentiality	high
Integrity	high
Availability	unknown

Overlays
Privacy (High), Privacy (Low), Privacy (Mod), Privacy (PHI)

CSF Categories
DE.CM-6, ID.AM-6, ID.GV-2, ID.SC-4, PR.AT-3, PR.IP-11

Related Controls

The controls below (if any) were marked by NIST as being related to PS-7.

Control	Description
PS-2	The organization: a: Assigns a risk designation to all organizational positions; b: Establishes screening criteria for individuals filling those positions; and c: Reviews and updates position risk designations [organization-defined frequency].
PS-3	The organization: a: Screens individuals prior to authorizing access to the information system; and b: Rescreens individuals according to [organization-defined conditions requiring rescreening and, where rescreening is so indicated, the frequency of such rescreening].
PS-4	The organization, upon termination of individual employment: a: Disables information system access within [organization-defined time period]; b: Terminates/revokes any authenticators/credentials associated with the individual; c: Conducts exit interviews that include a discussion of [organization-defined information security topics]; d: Retrieves all security-related organizational information system-related property; e: Retains access to organizational information and information systems formerly controlled by terminated individual; and f: Notifies [organization-defined personnel or roles] within [organization-defined time period].
PS-5	The organization: a: Reviews and confirms ongoing operational need for current logical and physical access authorizations to information systems/facilities when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization; b: Initiates [organization-defined transfer or reassignment actions] within [organization-defined time period following the formal transfer action]; c: Modifies access authorization as needed to correspond with any changes in operational need due to reassignment or transfer; and d: Notifies [organization-defined personnel or roles] within [organization-defined time period].
PS-6	The organization: a: Develops and documents access agreements for organizational information systems; b: Reviews and updates the access agreements [organization-defined frequency]; and c: Ensures that individuals requiring access to organizational information and information systems: 1: Sign appropriate access agreements prior to being granted access; and 2: Re-sign access agreements to maintain access to organizational information systems when access agreements have been updated or [organization-defined frequency].
SA-9	The organization: a: Requires that providers of external information system services comply with organizational information security requirements and employ [organization-defined security controls] in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance; b: Defines and documents government oversight and user roles and responsibilities with regard to external information system services; and c: Employs [organization-defined processes, methods, and techniques] to monitor security control compliance by external service providers on an ongoing basis.
SA-21	The organization requires that the developer of [organization-defined information system, system component, or information system service]: a: Have appropriate access authorizations as determined by assigned [organization-defined official government duties]; and b: Satisfy [organization-defined additional personnel screening criteria].

Enhancements

The controls below (if any) add on to the requirements of PS-7.

Control	Description
No controls

Related CCIs

The CCIs below are tied to PS-7.

CCI	Definition
CCI-001539	Establish personnel security requirements including security roles and responsibilities for external providers.
CCI-001540	Document personnel security requirements.
CCI-001541	Monitor provider compliance with personnel security requirements.
CCI-003040	The organization requires third-party providers to comply with personnel security policies and procedures established by the organization.
CCI-003041	Require external providers to notify organization-defined personnel or roles of any personnel transfers or terminations of external personnel who possess organizational credentials and/or badges, or who have system privileges within an organization-defined time period.
CCI-003042	Defines personnel or roles whom external providers are to notify when external personnel who possess organizational credentials and /or badges or who have system privileges are transferred or terminated.
CCI-003043	Defines the time period for external providers to notify organization-defined personnel or roles when external personnel who possess organizational credentials and/or badges, or who have system privileges are transferred or terminated.