Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• MA-05(01)(a)
  • MA-05(01)(a)(01) procedures for the use of maintenance personnel who lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens are implemented and include approved organizational personnel who are fully cleared, have appropriate access authorizations, and are technically qualified escorting and supervising maintenance personnel without the needed access authorization during the performance of maintenance and diagnostic activities;
  • MA-05(01)(a)(02) procedures for the use of maintenance personnel who lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens are implemented and include all volatile information storage components within the system being sanitized and all non-volatile storage media being removed or physically disconnected from the system and secured prior to initiating maintenance or diagnostic activities;
• MA-05(01)(b) [Assignment: alternate controls] are developed and implemented in the event that a system cannot be sanitized, removed, or disconnected from the system.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Maintenance policy
• procedures addressing maintenance personnel
• system media protection policy
• physical and environmental protection policy
• list of maintenance personnel requiring escort/supervision
• maintenance records
• access control records
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with system maintenance responsibilities
• organizational personnel with personnel security responsibilities
• organizational personnel with physical access control responsibilities
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• organizational personnel responsible for media sanitization
• system/network administrators

Test

• Organizational processes for managing maintenance personnel without appropriate access
• mechanisms supporting and/or implementing alternative security safeguards
• mechanisms supporting and/or implementing information storage component sanitization

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