Organizational Control: Public Key Infrastructure Certificates

Control ID: SC-17 Public Key Infrastructure Certificates Family: System and Communications Protection Source: NIST 800-53r4
Control: The organization issues public key certificates under an [Assignment: organization-defined certificate policy] or obtains public key certificates from an approved service provider.
Supplemental Guidance:
For all certificates, organizations manage information system trust stores to ensure only approved trust anchors are in the trust stores. This control addresses both certificates with visibility external to organizational information systems and certificates related to the internal operations of systems, for example, application-specific time services.

Related Controls: SC-12
Control Enhancements: N/A
References: OMB Memorandum 05-24; NIST Special Publications 800-32, 800-63.
Mechanisms:
Protocol Implementation Conformance Statements: N/A