DCS-16 Equipment Location
Equipment critical to the business is sited away from places where environmental hazards are likely.
Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DCS-16. 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
- Site risk assessment covering flood, seismic, fire and other environmental hazards · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Review records after changes in hazard data · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Location classification for each site and room · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- List of business-critical equipment and where it sits · Document repository
- Facility design decisions such as raised floors or upper-floor placement · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Equipment in basements in flood-prone areas
- Site assessment done at build time and never refreshed
- Critical equipment list incomplete, so placement cannot be checked
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.
Build my evidence sheet