- Name the sources — CISA alerts and directives, vendor security bulletins, sector sharing communities — and the owner who triages them; an unowned feed is the standard gap.
- Wire advisory triage into the flaw-remediation queue so an exploited-in-the-wild advisory can accelerate a fix past the routine schedule.
- Keep internal dissemination lightweight: a channel that reaches the people operating the affected systems beats a formal bulletin nobody reads.
03.14.03OFFICIAL TITLEPENDING NIST SME REVIEW
03.14.03 — Security Alerts, Advisories, and Directives
03.14 System and Information Integrity · NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3
Independent summary of the official requirement
Receive security alerts, advisories, and directives from external organizations on an ongoing basis, generate internal alerts and advisories as deemed necessary, and implement security directives within required time frames.
Rev. 3 requirement text is multi-part and parameterized with organization-defined values, so this site summarizes rather than reproduces it. The summary is independent — read the official publication for the binding wording.
NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 — Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems ↗NIST SP 800-171A Rev. 3 — Assessing Security Requirements for CUI ↗Independent interpretation
What this requirement is after
Someone has to be listening when CISA, a vendor, or a sharing community says 'this is being exploited now' — and something has to happen because of it. The requirement is the intake channel, the internal relay, and the acted-on directive; a subscription landing in an unread mailbox is the failure mode it exists to prevent.
Across revisions
Carried from Rev. 2's 3.14.3, with internal generation and dissemination and directive time frames now explicit in the requirement's structure.
Mapped practices
Brilliant at the Basics practices that support this requirement
No practice maps to this requirement — deliberately.
The campaign’s twenty practices are a priority list, not a control catalog, and none of them works this requirement’s substance directly. It still applies to you if it is in your contract’s scope: address it through your own implementation and the related artifacts below, and treat the absence of a mapping here as honesty, not permission to skip it.
Doing the work
Implementation considerations and evidence
- The named advisory sources and the triage owner
- Dated triage records linking specific advisories to action taken or documented non-applicability
Artifacts
Templates and worksheets with a mapped relationship
No artifact in the library names this requirement yet. The library index groups everything by category and practice.
The other revision
Where this came from in Rev. 2
Provenance
Sources and review status
| Primary sources | NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 — Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems · NIST SP 800-171A Rev. 3 — Assessing Security Requirements for CUI |
|---|---|
| Review status | Pending NIST SME review |
| Content version | 1.0 |
| Updated |