id: "PE-23" title: "Facility Location" family: "PE" family_name: "Physical and Environmental Protection" sort_id: "pe-23" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization"
Plan the location or site of the facility where the system resides considering physical and environmental hazards; and
For existing facilities, consider the physical and environmental hazards in the organizational risk management strategy.
Guidance
Physical and environmental hazards include floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism, vandalism, an electromagnetic pulse, electrical interference, and other forms of incoming electromagnetic radiation. The location of system components within the facility is addressed in PE-18.
Assessment Objective: the location or site of the facility where the system resides is planned considering physical and environmental hazards;
Assessment Objective: for existing facilities, physical and environmental hazards are considered in the organizational risk management strategy.
Physical and environmental protection policy
physical site planning documents
organizational assessment of risk
contingency plan
risk mitigation strategy documentation
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with site selection responsibilities for the facility housing the system
organizational personnel with risk mitigation responsibilities
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
Organizational processes for site planning