Essential Mission and Business Functions
LOW MODERATE HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Provide emergency lighting for all areas within the facility supporting essential mission and business functions.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizations define their essential missions and functions.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for PE-12(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
Assessment Objectives
- emergency lighting is provided for all areas within the facility supporting essential mission and business functions.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Physical and environmental protection policy; procedures addressing emergency lighting; emergency lighting documentation; emergency lighting test records; emergency exits and evacuation routes; areas/locations within facility supporting essential missions and business functions; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with the responsibility for emergency lighting and/or planning; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the emergency lighting capability].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PE-12(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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Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Physical and environmental protection policy
- system security plan
Testing
- Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the emergency lighting capability
Other Records
- procedures addressing emergency lighting
- emergency lighting documentation
- emergency lighting test records
- emergency exits and evacuation routes
- areas/locations within facility supporting essential missions and business functions
- other relevant documents or records