PE-23 Facility Location
a. Plan the location or site of the facility where the system resides considering physical and environmental hazards; and b. For existing facilities, consider the physical and environmental hazards in the organizational risk management strategy.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, PE-23. 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 NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 in the compliance library.
Base controls and their enhancements. Which apply follows the baseline you are assessed against (for example FedRAMP Moderate or High, or the low, moderate and high baselines of SP 800-53B). Text in square brackets is a parameter your organisation sets.
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
- Organizational assessment of risk · Physical access / facilities
- Test of Organizational processes for site planning · Physical access / facilities
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Physical and environmental protection policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Physical site planning documents · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Contingency plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Risk mitigation strategy documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- The facility site was selected without considering physical and environmental hazards
- Hazards of existing facilities are not reflected in the risk management strategy
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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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