id: "MP-05" title: "Media Transport" family: "MP" family_name: "Media Protection" sort_id: "mp-05" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" enhancements: - mp-5.1 - mp-5.2 - mp-5.3 - mp-5.4
Protect and control {{ insert: param, mp-05_odp.01 }} during transport outside of controlled areas using {{ insert: param, mp-5_prm_2 }};
Maintain accountability for system media during transport outside of controlled areas;
Document activities associated with the transport of system media; and
Restrict the activities associated with the transport of system media to authorized personnel.
Guidance
System media includes digital and non-digital media. Digital media includes flash drives, diskettes, magnetic tapes, external or removable hard disk drives (e.g., solid state and magnetic), compact discs, and digital versatile discs. Non-digital media includes microfilm and paper. Controlled areas are spaces for which organizations provide physical or procedural controls to meet requirements established for protecting information and systems. Controls to protect media during transport include cryptography and locked containers. Cryptographic mechanisms can provide confidentiality and integrity protections depending on the mechanisms implemented. Activities associated with media transport include releasing media for transport, ensuring that media enters the appropriate transport processes, and the actual transport. Authorized transport and courier personnel may include individuals external to the organization. Maintaining accountability of media during transport includes restricting transport activities to authorized personnel and tracking and/or obtaining records of transport activities as the media moves through the transportation system to prevent and detect loss, destruction, or tampering. Organizations establish documentation requirements for activities associated with the transport of system media in accordance with organizational assessments of risk. Organizations maintain the flexibility to define record-keeping methods for the different types of media transport as part of a system of transport-related records.
Assessment Objective: {{ insert: param, mp-05_odp.01 }} are protected during transport outside of controlled areas using {{ insert: param, mp-05_odp.02 }};
Assessment Objective: {{ insert: param, mp-05_odp.01 }} are controlled during transport outside of controlled areas using {{ insert: param, mp-05_odp.03 }};
Assessment Objective: accountability for system media is maintained during transport outside of controlled areas;
Assessment Objective: activities associated with the transport of system media are documented;
Assessment Objective: personnel authorized to conduct media transport activities is/are identified;
Assessment Objective: activities associated with the transport of system media are restricted to identified authorized personnel.
System media protection policy
procedures addressing media storage
physical and environmental protection policy and procedures
access control policy and procedures
authorized personnel list
system media
designated controlled areas
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with system media protection and storage responsibilities
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
system/network administrators
Organizational processes for storing information media
mechanisms supporting and/or implementing media storage/media protection