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NIST 800-171 · Maintenance

Requirement 3.7.5

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

Official requirement text

Require multifactor authentication to establish nonlocal maintenance sessions via external network connections and terminate such connections when nonlocal maintenance is complete.

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. 3.7.5[a]multifactor authentication is required to establish nonlocal maintenance sessions via external network connections.
  2. 3.7.5[b]nonlocal maintenance sessions established via external network connections are terminated when nonlocal maintenance is complete.

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