How to import the NIST 800-53 controls into Jira?

Question

We would like to manage our Nist Security Controls in Jira and would;d like to import these but unable to identify the best way of doing this and would like input.

Thank you

DC

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I've been a bit dismissive there.

I do know CSV is the greatest common divisor in the cases of a big table of data, and so it's going to work almost everywhere. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I think what I was trying to get at was "use a massive CSV pile to get you started, then look at other, better, methods of updates".   Could your NIST reports dump out JSON that could be (easily manipulated and then) poked into Jira?  Just one idea, but I always lean towards automations.

Don Coffey · Answer

Nic,

I agree CSVs is not productive, Unfortunately the NIST only provides these in the excel formats. Admittedly this is no easy task and have been lookin at the format structure provided.

Cheers
Don

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Ok, it's a bit weak keeping stuff in CSV in general, but for a one-off "getting started" run, that's perfectly normal.

Start at https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/import-data-from-a-csv-file/ - it should not be hard to re-shape your CSV into something Jira can read, you're probably 95% of the way there already.