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.

  1. 3.10.2[a]the physical facility where that system resides is protected.
  2. 3.10.2[b]the support infrastructure for that system is protected.
  3. 3.10.2[c]the physical facility where that system resides is monitored.
  4. 3.10.2[d]the support infrastructure for that system is monitored.

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