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Prevent Unauthorized Removal

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Prevent the removal of maintenance equipment containing organizational information by:

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizational information includes all information owned by organizations and any information provided to organizations for which the organizations serve as information stewards.

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 MA-3(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. personnel or roles who can authorize removal of equipment from the facility is/are defined;
  2. the removal of maintenance equipment containing organizational information is prevented by verifying that there is no organizational information contained on the equipment; or
  3. the removal of maintenance equipment containing organizational information is prevented by sanitizing or destroying the equipment; or
  4. the removal of maintenance equipment containing organizational information is prevented by retaining the equipment within the facility; or
  5. the removal of maintenance equipment containing organizational information is prevented by obtaining an exemption from <MA-03(03)_ODP personnel or roles> explicitly authorizing removal of the equipment from the facility.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Maintenance policy; procedures addressing system maintenance tools; system maintenance tools and associated documentation; maintenance records; equipment sanitization records; media sanitization records; exemptions for equipment removal; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with system maintenance responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; organizational personnel responsible for media sanitization].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational process for preventing unauthorized removal of information; mechanisms supporting media sanitization or destruction of equipment; mechanisms supporting verification of media sanitization].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control MA-3 — see the MA-3(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) (2) (3)

HIGH

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

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for MA-3(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

  • Maintenance policy
  • system security plan

Testing

  • Organizational process for preventing unauthorized removal of information
  • mechanisms supporting media sanitization or destruction of equipment
  • mechanisms supporting verification of media sanitization

Other Records

  • procedures addressing system maintenance tools
  • system maintenance tools and associated documentation
  • maintenance records
  • equipment sanitization records
  • media sanitization records
  • exemptions for equipment removal
  • other relevant documents or records