DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
What is DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)?
DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Security Requirements Guides (SRGs), published by the Defense Information Systems Agency via the DoD Cyber Exchange. SRGs are technology-family security-requirement sets derived from NIST SP 800-53 (via Control Correlation Identifiers); STIGs are product-specific hardening guides implementing the applicable SRG, each comprising findings categorised CAT I/II/III, assessed using STIG Viewer and SCAP-validated tools and tracked in eMASS. It comprises 22 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the United States.
How DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) maps to other frameworks
All 22 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) groups its controls into
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Query DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) programmatically
DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), its 22 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) API reference and MCP config →What DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- STIG-ASSESS-SCAP SCAP automated benchmark scanning
- STIG-GOV-CCI CCI and NIST SP 800-53 traceability
- STIG-GOV-EXC Exception and risk acceptance (POA&M)
- STIG-PGM-1 STIG/SRG applicability determination and baseline
- STIG-PGM-3 Change control and configuration-drift prevention
- STIG-SRG-OS Operating system STIG hardening
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