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NIST 800-171 · System and Communications Protection

Requirement 3.13.9

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

Official requirement text

Terminate network connections associated with communications sessions at the end of the sessions or after a defined period of inactivity.

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. 3.13.9[a]a period of inactivity to terminate network connections associated with communications sessions is defined.
  2. 3.13.9[b]network connections associated with communications sessions are terminated at the end of the sessions.
  3. 3.13.9[c]network connections associated with communications sessions are terminated after the defined period of inactivity.

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