# NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 PM-19 — Privacy Program Leadership Role - Source: https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/pm-19-privacy-program-leadership-role - Section: [Compliance](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance) › [NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 Controls](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5) › PM — Program Management - Last updated: 2026-06-05 - Publisher: iCompaas, Inc. (https://www.icompaas.com) **NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5**·Control `PM-19`·critical·Component: **Program Management** ## What this control requires > Appoint a senior agency official for privacy with the authority, mission, accountability, and resources to manage privacy risks and ensure the implementation of privacy requirements through the organization-wide privacy program. This control supports the Governance capability within the Program Management family. > > — NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, Control PM-19 ### In plain English Appoint a senior agency official for privacy with the authority, mission, accountability, and resources to manage privacy risks and ensure the implementation of privacy requirements through the organization-wide privacy program. In practice, this means you can prove you access management-level controls on a defined cadence. ## Why it matters SP 800-53 is the catalogue every U.S. federal authorisation (FedRAMP, FISMA, CMMC) and most regulated industries point at. A missing control surfaces as a Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) item that an Authorizing Official must approve before the Authority To Operate is granted or renewed. This control is rated **critical** in the source catalogue. Treat gaps here as production incidents in the risk register, not housekeeping. ## What an auditor looks for A 3PAO (FedRAMP) or Independent Assessor (NIST RMF) tests against NIST SP 800-53A assessment procedures. For each control they expect a documented implementation that addresses every assessment objective (Examine, Interview, Test) and an implementation summary in the System Security Plan. Within **Program Management**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Control PM-19) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles. ## How to implement 1. Write a short policy stating intent, scope and named owner. 2. Encode it as a platform guardrail — SCP, Azure Policy initiative, Organisation Policy, or repository policy. 3. Wire a monitoring signal that catches drift (CSPM rule, SIEM rule, scheduled query, Workspace alert) and ticket it. 4. Review on a documented cadence and capture the review in the risk register or compliance tracker. ### Operational checklist - **Access.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Review.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Identity.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Control.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Accountability.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Scope:** management, privacy, mission, organization, identity, review, capability, accountability. ## Evidence to collect - **Identity Scan.** IAM / IdP exports — Entra ID, Okta, IAM Identity Center, Workspace directory — showing accounts, roles, MFA state and last sign-in. - **Infra Scan.** Continuous infrastructure-posture telemetry — AWS Config, Azure Policy compliance, GCP Organisation Policy, Wiz / Prisma findings. Identity analytics (Okta, SailPoint, Access Analyzer) demonstrates least-privilege. Focus: Privacy Program Leadership Role. ## How it maps to other frameworks Computed from shared tags, control component and key-operation subjects — handy when you are reconciling controls across an audit. - [**CIS Controls v8 6.1** — Establish an Access Granting Process](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/cis-controls-v8/6-1-establish-an-access-granting-process) - [**ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.5.16** — Identity management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022/a-5-16-identity-management) - [**SOC 2 (2017 TSC) P5.1** — Data Subject Access to Personal Information](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/soc-2-trust-services-criteria/p5-1-data-subject-access-to-personal-information) ## Related controls in NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 - [**Control PM-2** — Information Security Program Leadership Role](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/pm-2-information-security-program-leadership-role) - [**Control PM-20** — Dissemination Of Privacy Program Information](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/pm-20-dissemination-of-privacy-program-information) - [**Control PM-1** — Information Security Program Plan](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/pm-1-information-security-program-plan) - [**Control IA-8(2)** — Acceptance Of External Authenticators](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/ia-8-2-acceptance-of-external-authenticators) - [**Control AT-3(3)** — Practical Exercises](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/at-3-3-practical-exercises) - [**Control PM-7** — Enterprise Architecture](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/pm-7-enterprise-architecture) ## References - [NIST Computer Security Resource Center — NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5](https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/risk-management/sp800-53-controls) - Catalogue identifier: `Control PM-19` Topics: governance riskidentity accessidentity managementaccess reviewprivileged accessprivacy management ## Related compliance guidance - [NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5: a practical implementation guide for cloud teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5): Start with the full NIST SP 800-53 implementation guide — scope, roadmap, evidence and how the assessment runs. - [NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC: a practical guide to protecting CUI in the cloud](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-171-rev-3): If your obligation is protecting CUI in your own systems for a federal or defence contract, this derived subset — not the full catalogue — is the requirement. - [SOC 2 compliance: a practical implementation guide for cloud-native SaaS teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/soc-2-trust-services-criteria): Most commercial SaaS already hold a SOC 2 Type 2, and FedRAMP 20x Class A is designed for providers that have one.