Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• AC-03(14) [Assignment: mechanisms] are provided to enable individuals to have access to [Assignment: elements] of their personally identifiable information.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Access mechanisms (e.g., request forms and application interfaces)
• access control policy
• procedures addressing access enforcement
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• documentation regarding access to an individual’s personally identifiable information
• system audit records
• system security plan
• privacy plan
• privacy impact assessment
• privacy assessment findings and/or reports
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with access enforcement responsibilities
• system/network administrators
• organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
• legal counsel

Test

• Mechanisms implementing access enforcement functions
• mechanisms enabling individual access to personally identifiable information

Linked Issues

• NIST -

  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final