Cyber Posture

NIST 800-53 r5 · Controls catalogue · Family SA

SA-2Allocation of Resources

Determine the high-level information security and privacy requirements for the system or system service in mission and business process planning; Determine, document, and allocate the resources required to protect the system or system service as part of the organizational capital planning and investment control process; and Establish a discrete line item for information security and privacy in organizational programming and budgeting documentation.

Last updated: 09 May 2026 03:25 UTC

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ATT&CK techniques this control mitigates (0)

Weaknesses this control addresses (3)AI

CWEs ranked by how often they appear in real CVEs. The rationale describes how this control reduces exploitability of each weakness class.

CWE Name CVEs Why this control addresses it
CWE-693Protection Mechanism Failure476Mandates documented allocation of resources to protection requirements, reducing the likelihood that protection mechanisms are underfunded, omitted, or inadequately maintained.
CWE-1104Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components19Dedicated security line items in budgets enable ongoing maintenance, patching, and replacement of third-party components that would otherwise be left unmaintained due to lack of allocated resources.
CWE-657Violation of Secure Design Principles19Explicitly requires security/privacy to be incorporated into mission/business process planning and capital budgeting, directly countering violations of secure design principles that occur when security is treated as an afterthought.

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