id: "MA-05(01)" title: "Individuals Without Appropriate Access" family: "MA" family_name: "Maintenance" sort_id: "ma-05.01" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "MA-05" enhancement: True


Implement procedures for the use of maintenance personnel that lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens, that include the following requirements:

Maintenance personnel who do not have needed access authorizations, clearances, or formal access approvals are escorted and supervised during the performance of maintenance and diagnostic activities on the system by approved organizational personnel who are fully cleared, have appropriate access authorizations, and are technically qualified; and

Prior to initiating maintenance or diagnostic activities by personnel who do not have needed access authorizations, clearances or formal access approvals, all volatile information storage components within the system are sanitized and all nonvolatile storage media are removed or physically disconnected from the system and secured; and

Develop and implement {{ insert: param, ma-05.01_odp }} in the event a system component cannot be sanitized, removed, or disconnected from the system.

Guidance

Procedures for individuals who lack appropriate security clearances or who are not U.S. citizens are intended to deny visual and electronic access to classified or controlled unclassified information contained on organizational systems. Procedures for the use of maintenance personnel can be documented in security plans for the systems.

Assessment Objective: 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;

Assessment Objective: 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;

Assessment Objective: {{ insert: param, ma-05.01_odp }} are developed and implemented in the event that a system cannot be sanitized, removed, or disconnected from the system.

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

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

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