MA.L2-3.7.5 Nonlocal Maintenance
Authenticate nonlocal maintenance sessions opened across external networks using multiple factors, and close those sessions once the maintenance work finishes.
Source: CMMC 2.0, MA.L2-3.7.5. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CMMC 2.0 in the compliance library.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Multifactor configuration for nonlocal maintenance access · Cloud console / configuration management
- Records of maintenance session establishment and termination · HR system / LMS
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Procedure requiring termination at completion · HR system / LMS
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Vendor maintenance accounts exempt from multifactor
- Sessions left open after work completes
- Termination relies on the vendor rather than the organization
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
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