compliancelib 0.2.1

A python library of IT Compliance Standards

A python package extracted from prototype 800-53-Control-Server (https://github.com/govready/800-53-server)

Goal

Create a python class that generates basic information about a FISMA 800-53 security control including: - [x] Full name of control - [x] Who has responsibility for control (e.g., organization or information system)

Warning

This is early code. There may be errors!

Requirements

• Python 2.7

• xsltproc - to perform XSL transformations

Usage

To use, simply do in python shell:

>>> import compliancelib
>>> c=compliancelib.SecControl("AC-1")
>>> c.id
'AC-1'
>>> c.title
u'ACCESS CONTROL POLICY AND PROCEDURES'