DCS-01 Physical and Environmental Security Policy and Procedures
The organisation keeps a set of policies and procedures covering physical and environmental security, formally approved, published to the people who must follow them, put into practice and assessed for effectiveness. They are reviewed and refreshed at least once a year and whenever a significant change occurs.
Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DCS-01. 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 CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.
Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.
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
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Policy distribution or attestation records for datacenter and facilities staff · Physical access / facilities
- Annual review log plus records of out-of-cycle reviews after events such as a new site or a major incident · SIEM / log platform
- Results of physical security audits used to evaluate whether the policy is applied · Physical access / facilities
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Approved physical and environmental security policy with owner, version and approval date · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Supporting procedures for facility access, environmental controls, asset movement and equipment decommissioning · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Physical security handled only inside a general information security policy, with no facility-level procedures
- Review happens on the calendar but not after opening, closing or refitting a datacenter
- Colocation or third-party hosted sites left outside the policy scope
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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