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Separation from Primary Site

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Identify an alternate processing site that is sufficiently separated from the primary processing site to reduce susceptibility to the same threats.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Threats that affect alternate processing sites are defined in organizational assessments of risk and include natural disasters, structural failures, hostile attacks, and errors of omission or commission. Organizations determine what is considered a sufficient degree of separation between primary and alternate processing sites based on the types of threats that are of concern. For threats such as hostile attacks, the degree of separation between sites is less relevant.

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-7(1) 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. an alternate processing site that is sufficiently separated from the primary processing site to reduce susceptibility to the same threats is identified.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Contingency planning policy; procedures addressing alternate processing sites; contingency plan; alternate processing site; alternate processing site agreements; primary processing site agreements; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with contingency plan alternate processing 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-7 — see the CP-7(1) 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) (2) (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2) (3) (4)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CP-7(1). 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 processing sites
  • alternate processing site
  • alternate processing site agreements
  • primary processing site agreements
  • other relevant documents or records