Valontir

NIST 800-171 · Configuration Management

Requirement 3.4.5

SPRS weight
SPRS weight: 5
POA&M eligibility
Not POA&M-eligible
Assessment objectives
8 assessment objectives

Official requirement text

Define, document, approve, and enforce physical and logical access restrictions associated with changes to 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. 3.4.5[a]physical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are defined.
  2. 3.4.5[b]physical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are documented.
  3. 3.4.5[c]physical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are approved.
  4. 3.4.5[d]physical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are enforced.
  5. 3.4.5[e]logical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are defined.
  6. 3.4.5[f]logical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are documented.
  7. 3.4.5[g]logical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are approved.
  8. 3.4.5[h]logical access restrictions associated with changes to the system are enforced.

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