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AC-16(5)Security Attributes

PBMM (P2)
Secret (P2)
Technical

>Control Description

SECURITY ATTRIBUTES | ATTRIBUTE DISPLAYS FOR OUTPUT DEVICES The information system displays security attributes in human-readable form on each object that the system transmits to output devices to identify organization-defined special dissemination, handling, or distribution instructions using organization-defined human-readable, standard naming conventions.

>Supplemental Guidance

Information system outputs include, for example, pages, screens, or equivalent. Information system output devices include, for example, printers and video displays on computer workstations, notebook computers, and personal digital assistants.

>Tailoring Guidance

Control enhancement (5) displays the security label in a human readable form. The resulting security marking will encourage proper handling of these resources by users. These enhancements may be implemented by procedural means (e.g. manual insertion of a classification header in a word processing document), or, preferably, managed efficiently by the information system (e.g. enterprise content management (ECM) system) using metadata field.

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