Security Control Standards Catalog
The security control standards catalog defines protective measures for systems, organizations, and individuals to support risk management and compliance with applicable laws, policies, regulations, and standards. The controls are largely policy-, technology-, and sector-neutral, focusing on fundamental safeguards needed to protect information and individual privacy across the information life cycle, while still requiring organizations to account for their specific policies, technologies, and operating environments during implementation.
A neutral control catalog is intended to shape how organizations think about and apply security and privacy requirements. In particular, it encourages organizations to focus first on the security and privacy functions and capabilities necessary for mission and business success, rather than on specific technologies. It also requires organizations to analyze each control for applicability to their technologies, operating environments, mission and business functions, and communities of interest. Where controls include variable parameters, organizations are expected to explicitly specify their own security and privacy policies as part of the control tailoring process.
The catalog evolves over time to remain effective against changing risks. New controls are adopted based on emerging threat and vulnerability information, observed adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and an improved understanding of how to mitigate information security and privacy risks to systems, organizations, and individuals. New or revised laws, policies, regulations, and standards also drive the introduction of additional controls.
Proposed changes to existing controls are carefully evaluated during each revision cycle. This analysis balances the need for stability—so that organizations can maintain consistent security and privacy plans—with the need to respond to changing technologies, threats, vulnerabilities, attack methods, and information processing practices. The overarching objective is to adjust the level of information security and privacy over time to meet the evolving needs of organizations and the individuals whose information they process.
Catalog OSCAL Metadata
Title: Texas A&M University System Security Control Standards Catalog
Last Modified: 2025-12-16 18:44:05.836172+00:00
Version: 2.2
OSCAL Version: 1.1.3