NIST 800-171 · Physical Protection
Requirement 3.10.2
- SPRS weight
- SPRS weight: 5
- POA&M eligibility
- Not POA&M-eligible
- Assessment objectives
- 4 assessment objectives
Official requirement text
Protect and monitor the physical facility and support infrastructure for organizational systems.
Assessment objectives
Assessors don’t evaluate the requirement as one sentence; they walk these objectives one by one. Each must be met for the requirement to score.
- 3.10.2[a]the physical facility where that system resides is protected.
- 3.10.2[b]the support infrastructure for that system is protected.
- 3.10.2[c]the physical facility where that system resides is monitored.
- 3.10.2[d]the support infrastructure for that system is monitored.
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