Processing and Storage Location — U.S. Jurisdiction
LOW MODERATE HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Restrict the geographic location of information processing and data storage to facilities located within in the legal jurisdictional boundary of the United States.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
The geographic location of information processing and data storage can have a direct impact on the ability of organizations to successfully execute their mission and business functions. A compromise or breach of high impact information and systems can have severe or catastrophic adverse impacts on organizational assets and operations, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation. Restricting the processing and storage of high-impact information to facilities within the legal jurisdictional boundary of the United States provides greater control over such processing and storage.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for SA-9(8) 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
- the geographic location of information processing and data storage is restricted to facilities located within the legal jurisdictional boundary of the United States.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: System and services acquisition policy; system and services acquisition procedures; procedures addressing external system services; acquisition contracts for the system, system component, or system service; solicitation documentation; acquisition documentation; service level agreements; procedures addressing determining jurisdiction restrictions for processing and storage location; information/data and/or system services; organizational security requirements or conditions for external providers; system security plan; supply chain risk management plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with system and service acquisition responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; organization personnel with supply chain risk management responsibilities; external providers of system services].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes restricting external system service providers to process and store information within the legal jurisdictional boundary of the United States].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SA-9(8). 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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Policy
- System and services acquisition policy
- system security plan
- supply chain risk management plan
Testing
- Organizational processes restricting external system service providers to process and store information within the legal jurisdictional boundary of the United States
Other Records
- system and services acquisition procedures
- procedures addressing external system services
- acquisition contracts for the system, system component, or system service
- solicitation documentation
- acquisition documentation
- service level agreements
- procedures addressing determining jurisdiction restrictions for processing and storage location
- information/data and/or system services
- organizational security requirements or conditions for external providers
- other relevant documents or records