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Accessibility

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Identify potential accessibility problems to the alternate storage site in the event of an area-wide disruption or disaster and outline explicit mitigation actions.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Area-wide disruptions refer to those types of disruptions that are broad in geographic scope with such determinations made by organizations based on organizational assessments of risk. Explicit mitigation actions include duplicating backup information at other alternate storage sites if access problems occur at originally designated alternate sites or planning for physical access to retrieve backup information if electronic accessibility to the alternate site is disrupted.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for CP-6(3) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. potential accessibility problems to the alternate storage site in the event of an area-wide disruption or disaster are identified;
  2. explicit mitigation actions to address identified accessibility problems are outlined.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Contingency planning policy; procedures addressing alternate storage sites; contingency plan; alternate storage site; list of potential accessibility problems to alternate storage site; mitigation actions for accessibility problems to alternate storage site; organizational risk assessments; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with contingency plan alternate storage site responsibilities; organizational personnel with system recovery responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CP-6 — see the CP-6(3) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (3)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CP-6(3). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Contingency planning policy
  • contingency plan
  • system security plan

Other Records

  • procedures addressing alternate storage sites
  • alternate storage site
  • list of potential accessibility problems to alternate storage site
  • mitigation actions for accessibility problems to alternate storage site
  • organizational risk assessments
  • other relevant documents or records