The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise.
(1)Access--The physical or logical capability to view,
interact with, or otherwise make use of information resources.
(2)Agency Head--The top-most senior executive with
operational accountability for an agency, department, commission,
board, office, council, authority, or other agency in the executive
or judicial branch of state government, that is created by the constitution
or a statute of the state; or institutions of higher education, as
defined in Texas Education Code §61.003.
(3)Application--As defined in Texas Government Code §2054.003(1).
(4)Availability--The security objective of ensuring
timely and reliable access to and use of information.
(5)Cloud Computing--Has the same meaning as "Advanced
Internet-Based Computing Service" as defined in Texas Government Code §2157.007(a).
(6)Cloud Computing Service--The [the]
meaning assigned by Special Publication 800-145 issued by the United
States Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and
Technology[,] as the definition existed on January 1, 2015.
(7)Confidential Information--Information that must
be protected from unauthorized disclosure or public release based
on state or federal law or other legal agreement.
(8)Confidentiality--The security objective of preserving
authorized restrictions on information access and disclosure, including
means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information.
(9)Control--A safeguard or countermeasure, including
devices, policies, procedures, techniques, or other measures, that
are prescribed to meet security requirements of an information system
or organization to preserve. Controls may include security features,
management constraints, personnel security, and security of physical
structures, areas, and devices.
(10)Control Standards Catalog--The document that provides
state agencies and higher education institutions state specific implementation
guidance for alignment with the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) SP (Special Publication) 800-53 security controls.
(11)Custodian--See information custodian.
(12)Department--The Department of Information Resources.
(13)Destruction--The result of actions taken to ensure
that physical and digital media cannot be reused as originally intended
and that information is technologically infeasible or prohibitively
expensive to recover.
(14)Electronic Communication--A process used to convey
a message or exchange information via electronic media. It includes
the use of electronic mail (email), Internet access, Instant Messaging
(IM), Short Message Service (SMS), facsimile transmission, and other
paperless means of communication.
(15)Encryption (encrypt or encipher)--The conversion
of plaintext information into a code or cipher text using a variable
called a "key" and processing those items through a fixed algorithm
to create the encrypted text that conceals the data's original meaning.
(16)FedRAMP--Federal Risk and Authorization Management
Program.
(17)Guideline--Recommended, non-mandatory controls
that help support standards or serve as a reference when no applicable
standard is in place.
(18)High Impact Information Resources--Information
Resources whose loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability
could be expected to have a severe or catastrophic adverse effect
on organizational operations, organizational assets, or individuals.
Such an event could:
(A)cause a severe degradation in or loss of mission
capability to an extent and duration that the organization is not
able to perform one or more of its primary functions;
(B)result in major damage to organizational assets;
(C)result in major financial loss; or
(D)result in severe or catastrophic harm to individuals
involving loss of life or serious life-threatening injuries.
(19)Information--Any communication or representation
of knowledge such as facts, data, or opinions in any medium or form,
including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, electronic,
or audiovisual forms.
(20)Information Custodian--A department, agency, or
third-party service provider responsible for implementing the information
owner-defined controls and access to an information resource.
(21)Information Owner(s)--A person(s) with statutory
or operational authority for specified information and responsibility
for establishing the controls for its generation, collection, processing,
dissemination, and disposal.
(22)Information Resources--As defined in Texas Government
Code §2054.003(7).
(23)Information Resources Manager--As defined in Texas
Government Code §2054.071.
(24)Information Security Program--The policies, standards,
procedures, elements, structure, strategies, objectives, plans, metrics,
reports, services, and resources that establish an information resources
security function within an institution of higher education or state
agency.
(25)Information System--A discrete set of information
resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use,
sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information. An Information
System normally includes, but is not limited to, hardware, software,
network infrastructure, information, applications, communications,
and people.
(26)Integrity--The security objective of guarding
against improper information modification or destruction, including
ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity.
(27)ITCHE--Information Technology Council for Higher
Education.
(28)Local Government - As defined
by Texas Government Code §2054.003(9).
(29)[(28)] Low Impact Information
Resources--Information resources whose loss of confidentiality, integrity,
or availability could be expected to have a limited adverse effect
on organizational operations, organizational assets, or individuals.
Such an event could:
(A)cause a degradation in mission capability to an
extent and duration that the organization is able to perform its primary
functions, but the effectiveness of the functions is noticeably reduced;
(B)result in minor damage to organizational assets;
(C)result in minor financial loss; or
(D)result in minor harm to individuals.
(30)[(29)] Moderate Impact Information
Resources--Information Resources whose loss of confidentiality, integrity,
or availability could be expected to have a serious adverse effect
on organizational operations, organizational assets, or individuals.
Such an event could:
(A)cause a significant degradation in mission capability
to an extent and duration that the organization is able to perform
its primary functions, but the effectiveness of the functions is significantly
reduced;
(B)result in significant damage to organizational
assets;
(C)result in significant financial loss; or
(D)result in significant harm to individuals that
does not involve loss of life or serious life-threatening injuries.
(31)[(30)] Network Security
Operations Center (NSOC)--As established by Texas Government Code §2059.101.
(32)[(31)] Nonconfidential Data--Information
that is not required to be or may not be protected from unauthorized
disclosure or public release based on state or federal law or other
legal agreement.
(33)[(32)] Personal Identifying
Information (PII)--A category of personal identity information as
defined by Texas Business and Commerce Code §521.002(a)(1).
(34)[(33)] Procedure--Instructions
to assist information security staff, custodians, and users in implementing
policies, standards, and guidelines.
(35)[(34)] Program Manual--Program
manual for the Texas risk and authorization management program.
(36)[(35)] Residual Risk--The
risk that remains after security measures have been applied.
(37)[(36)] Risk--The effect
on the entity's missions, functions, image, reputation, assets, or
constituencies considering the probability that a threat will exploit
a vulnerability, the safeguards already in place, and the resulting
impact. Risk outcomes are a consequence of Impact levels defined in
this section.
(38)[(37)] Risk Assessment--The
process of identifying, evaluating, and documenting the probability
and level of impact on an organization's mission, functions, image,
reputation, assets, or individuals that may result from the operation
of information systems. Risk Assessment incorporates threat and vulnerability
analyses and considers mitigations provided by planned or in-place
security controls.
(39)[(38)] Risk Management--The
process of aligning information resources risk exposure with the organization's
risk tolerance by either accepting, transferring, or mitigating risk
exposures.
(40)[(39)] Security Assessment--The
testing or evaluation of security controls to determine the extent
to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended,
and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security
requirements for an information system or organization.
(41)[(40)] Security Incident--An
incident that meets one of the requirements enumerated at Texas Government
Code §2054.603(a)(1)(A) - (B). [An event that results in
the accidental or deliberate unauthorized access, loss, disclosure,
modification, disruption, exposure, or destruction of information
or information resources.]
(42)[(41)] Sensitive Personal
Information--A category of personal identity information as defined
by Texas Business and Commerce Code §521.002(a)(2).
(43)[(42)] Standards--Specific
mandatory controls that help enforce and support the information security
policy.
(44)[(43)] State-controlled
data--Any and all data that is created, processed, or stored by a
state agency.
(45)[(44)] StateRAMP--The risk
and authorization management program, built upon the National Institute
of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 and modeled
after the FedRAMP program, that provides state and local governments
a common method for verification of cloud security.
(46)[(45)] Statewide Technology
Centers--As defined in Texas Government Code §2054.375(2).
(47)[(46)] Threat--Any circumstance
or event with the potential to adversely impact organizational operations
(including mission, functions, image, or reputation), organizational
assets, or individuals by the unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure,
modification of information, and/or denial of service.
(48)[(47)] TX-RAMP--the Texas
Risk [risk] and Authorization [authorization
] Management [management] Program [
program].
(49)[(48)] User of Information
Resources--An individual, process, or automated application authorized
to access an information resource in accordance with federal and state
law, agency policy, and the information-owner's procedures and rules.
(50)[(49)] Vulnerability Assessment--A
documented evaluation containing information described in Texas Government
Code §2054.077(b), which includes the susceptibility of a particular
system to a specific attack.
The agency certifies that legal counsel has
reviewed the proposal and found it to be within the state agency's
legal authority to adopt.
Filed with the Office
of the Secretary of State on August 22, 2023
TRD-202303094 Joshua Godbey
General Counsel
Department of Information Resources
Earliest possible date of adoption: October 8, 2023
For further information, please call: (512) 475-4552
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