id: "SC-05(02)" title: "Capacity, Bandwidth, and Redundancy" family: "SC" family_name: "System and Communications Protection" sort_id: "sc-05.02" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "system" parent: "SC-05" enhancement: True
Statement
Manage capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks.
Guidance
Managing capacity ensures that sufficient capacity is available to counter flooding attacks. Managing capacity includes establishing selected usage priorities, quotas, partitioning, or load balancing.
Assessment Objective
capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancies to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks are managed.
System and communications protection policy
procedures addressing denial-of-service protection
system design documentation
system configuration settings and associated documentation
system audit records
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
System/network administrators
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
organizational personnel with incident response responsibilities
system developer
Mechanisms implementing the management of system bandwidth, capacity, and redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks