Intrusion Alarms and Surveillance Equipment
LOW ✓ MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Monitor physical access to the facility where the system resides using physical intrusion alarms and surveillance equipment.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Physical intrusion alarms can be employed to alert security personnel when unauthorized access to the facility is attempted. Alarm systems work in conjunction with physical barriers, physical access control systems, and security guards by triggering a response when these other forms of security have been compromised or breached. Physical intrusion alarms can include different types of sensor devices, such as motion sensors, contact sensors, and broken glass sensors. Surveillance equipment includes video cameras installed at strategic locations throughout the facility.
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-6(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
- physical access to the facility where the system resides is monitored using physical intrusion alarms;
- physical access to the facility where the system resides is monitored using physical surveillance equipment.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Physical and environmental protection policy; procedures addressing physical access monitoring; physical access logs or records; physical access monitoring records; physical access log reviews; system security plan; privacy plan; privacy impact assessment; privacy risk assessment documentation; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with physical access monitoring responsibilities; organizational personnel with incident response responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for monitoring physical intrusion alarms and surveillance equipment; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing physical access monitoring; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing physical intrusion alarms and surveillance equipment].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PE-6(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
- privacy plan
Logging
- physical access log reviews
Testing
- Organizational processes for monitoring physical intrusion alarms and surveillance equipment
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing physical access monitoring
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing physical intrusion alarms and surveillance equipment
Other Records
- procedures addressing physical access monitoring
- physical access logs or records
- physical access monitoring records
- privacy impact assessment
- privacy risk assessment documentation
- other relevant documents or records