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SC.3.191
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Control Acronym
SC
Family
System And Communications Protection
CMMC Level
3
800-171 Control #
3.13.16
CMMC Description
Protect the confidentiality of CUI at rest.
CMMC Clarification
CUI at rest means information that does not move through the network and may be stored on hard drives, media, and mobile devices. Develop a scheme and implement the necessary security controls to protect the confidentiality of CUI at rest. Although an approved encryption method protects data stored at rest, there are other additional technical solutions. The scheme you choose should depend on your organization’s environment and business needs. Example 1 You are an IT administrator at your organization responsible for protecting CUI at rest. Your company has a policy stating CUI must be protected at rest and you work to enforce that policy. You research Full Disk Encryption (FDE) products that meet the FIPS encryption requirement. After testing, you roll out the encryption to all computers at your company to protect CUI at rest. Example 2 You are an IT administrator for your company. While you have used encryption to protect the CUI on most of the computers at your company, you have some devices that do not support encryption. Your company creates a policy requiring these devices to be signed out when needed, stay in possession of the signer when checked out, and to be signed back in and locked up in a secured closet when the user is done with the device. At the end of the day each Friday, you audit the sign-out sheet and make sure all devices are returned to the closet.
800-171 Description
Protect the confidentiality of CUI at rest.
800-171 Discussion
Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is not in process or in transit and is located on storage devices as specific components of systems. The focus of protection at rest is not on the type of storage device or the frequency of access but rather the state of the information. Organizations can use different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality protections, including the use of cryptographic mechanisms and file share scanning. Organizations may also use other controls including secure off-line storage in lieu of online storage when adequate protection of information at rest cannot otherwise be achieved or continuous monitoring to identify malicious code at rest. See [NIST CRYPTO].
Other Source Discussion
N/A
CIS Control References
CIS Controls v7.1 14.8
NIST 800-53 Control Ref.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4 SC-28
CMMC Derived
NIST CSF Control References
NIST 800-171 References
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 1 3.13.16
Applicable FAR Clause
NIST CSF Control Reference
NIST CSF v1.1 PR.DS-1
CERT RMM Reference
Modification of NIST 800-171B Reference
NIST 800-171B Reference
UK NCSCCyber Reference
AS ACSC Reference
Sub-Criterias
Assessment Sub-Criteria 1
SC.3.191.[a] the confidentiality of CUI at rest is protected.