NIST 800-171 · System and Communications Protection

Requirement 3.13.7

SPRS weight
SPRS weight: 1
POA&M eligibility
POA&M-eligible
Assessment objectives
1 assessment objective

Official requirement text

Prevent remote devices from simultaneously establishing non-remote connections with organizational systems and communicating via some other connection to resources in external networks (i.e., split tunneling).

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. 3.13.7remote devices are prevented from simultaneously establishing non-remote connections with the system and communicating via some other connection to resources in external networks (i.e., split tunneling).

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