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PE-18 Location of System Components

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.1.1+u4
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Title

Location of System Components

Control

Position system components within the facility to minimize potential damage from [Assignment: physical and environmental hazards] and to minimize the opportunity for unauthorized access.

Discussion

Physical and environmental hazards include floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism, vandalism, an electromagnetic pulse, electrical interference, and other forms of incoming electromagnetic radiation. Organizations consider the location of entry points where unauthorized individuals, while not being granted access, might nonetheless be near systems. Such proximity can increase the risk of unauthorized access to organizational communications using wireless packet sniffers or microphones, or unauthorized disclosure of information.

Parameters

pe-18_odp: physical and environmental hazards

Related controls

cp-2, pe-19, pe-20, pe-5, ra-3

Assessment objective

PE-18 system components are positioned within the facility to minimize potential damage from [Assignment: physical and environmental hazards] and to minimize the opportunity for unauthorized access.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).