NIST 800-171 · System and Information Integrity
Requirement 3.14.2
- SPRS weight
- SPRS weight: 5
- POA&M eligibility
- Not POA&M-eligible
- Assessment objectives
- 2 assessment objectives
Official requirement text
Provide protection from malicious code at designated locations within 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.
- 3.14.2[a]designated locations for malicious code protection are identified.
- 3.14.2[b]protection from malicious code at designated locations is provided.
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