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Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: a Security Life Cycle Approach
Published
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, L A. Johnson
Abstract
[Superseded by SP 800-37 Rev. 1 (February 2010, w/updates through 6/5/2014): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=916094] The purpose of SP 800-37 Rev 1 is to provide guidelines for applying the Risk Management Framework to federal information systems to include conducting the activities of security categorization, security control selection and implementation, security control assessment, information system authorization, and security control monitoring. [Supersedes SP 800-37 (May 2004): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=151292]
Ross, R.
and Johnson, L.
(2010),
Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: a Security Life Cycle Approach, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
(Accessed October 13, 2025)