NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 (Security & Privacy Controls)
Foundational US federal control catalogue. ControlForge curates the NIST SP 800-53B Moderate baseline (181 base controls across 19 families: AC/AT/AU/CA/CM/CP/IA/IR/MA/MP/PE/PL/PS/PT/RA/SA/SC/SI/SR). Moderate-selected control enhancements are folded into implementation guidance. The full Rev 5 catalogue (1,006 controls including enhancements) and High baseline can be authored in subsequent waves.
Composition
181 controls currently indexed; participates in 37 cross-framework synthesis clusters.
Participates in synthesis
Each cluster listed below combines this framework's controls with operationally equivalent controls from other frameworks, resolving the overlap into a single audit-defensible specification.
- Anti-malware protection with EDR and email/web safeguards
- Authentication architecture and multi-factor authentication
- Board-approved policy framework anchoring derived operational controls (legacy "supplier-policy" cluster name)
- Board-approved security policy framework — IS policy, cyber security policy, and derived operational policies
- Business continuity and ICT recovery readiness
- Centralised logging with retention, tamper protection, and integrity
- Change management — IT systems, configuration, supplier services, risk
- Comprehensive asset inventory with classification and ownership
- Consent management — capture, modify, withdraw across jurisdictions
- Continuous monitoring of networks, systems, applications, and outsourced development
- Cryptographic controls, key management, and post-quantum readiness
- Cyber risk assessment — technology, process, people, third-party, supply chain, post-quantum
- Cyber security roles, responsibilities, and authority — Board through operational team
- Data classification with protection controls — DLP, masking, retention, secure disposal
- Data-at-rest protection — encryption, access, processor controls
- Data-in-transit protection and physical media handling
- DevSecOps maturity — security-as-code, pipeline-enforced controls, API security
- Event-to-incident categorisation and assessment
- Incident response execution — detection through eradication, recovery, and lessons learned
- Incident response plan preparation, independent review, and risk-response planning
- Mandatory assurance regime — periodic audit, VAPT, third-party assessment, risk review
- Multi-regulator incident notification with coordinated submission timelines
- Network protection — segmentation, monitoring, perimeter, and data leak prevention
- Network segmentation with zero-trust principles
- PIMS context — Clauses 4-5 management system context and leadership
- Physical access controls — secure areas, entry monitoring, asset protection
- Privacy governance — legal, regulatory, contractual, and algorithmic obligations
- Privileged access management and access rights lifecycle
- Ransomware-resilient backup architecture
- Secure SDLC — threat modelling, secure coding, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, DevSecOps
- Secure configuration baselines and hardening discipline
- Secure disposal of equipment, media, and personal information
- Security Operations Centre — SIEM, EDR, forensics, MITRE-aligned detection
- Software installation discipline — authorised software, configuration, source code access
- VAPT cycle — vulnerability assessment and penetration testing programme
- Vulnerability management programme — discovery, prioritisation, remediation
- Workforce security awareness, role-based training, and human-factor controls