PE-23 ยท Facility Location

Control Description

Plan the location or site of the facility where the system resides considering physical and environmental hazards; and For existing facilities, consider the physical and environmental hazards in the organizational risk management strategy.

Impact Baselines
Security baselines where this control applies
Not in any baseline
Control Properties
SP800-53
organization
Control Statement
The control requirements

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.

Supplemental Guidance

Physical and environmental hazards include floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism, vandalism, an electromagnetic pulse, electrical interference, and other forms of incoming electromagnetic radiation. The location of system components within the facility is addressed in [PE-18](#pe-18).

Related NIST Controls
Other NIST 800-53 controls related to this one