PS-5

Requirement
1. Review and confirm ongoing operational need for current logical and physical access authorizations to systems and facilities when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization;
2. Initiate [Assignment: organization-defined transfer or reassignment actions] within [Assignment: organization-defined time period following the formal transfer action];
3. Modify access authorization as needed to correspond with any changes in operational need due to reassignment or transfer; and
4. Notify [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] within [Assignment: organization-defined time period].

Discussion

Personnel transfer applies when reassignments or transfers of individuals are permanent or of such extended duration as to make the actions warranted. Organizations define actions appropriate for the types of reassignments or transfers, whether permanent or extended. Actions that may be required for personnel transfers or reassignments to other positions within organizations include returning old and issuing new keys, identification cards, and building passes; closing system accounts and establishing new accounts; changing system access authorizations (i.e., privileges); and providing for access to official records to which individuals had access at previous work locations and in previous system accounts.

NIST 800-53A Assessment Guidance

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Personnel security policy; procedures addressing personnel transfer; records of personnel transfer actions; list of system and facility access authorizations; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with personnel security responsibilities; organizational personnel with account management responsibilities; system/network administrators; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for personnel transfer; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing personnel transfer notifications; mechanisms for disabling system access/revoking authenticators].

ID	Assessment Objectives
PS-05c.	access authorization is modified as needed to correspond with any changes in operational need due to reassignment or transfer;
PS-05d.	<PS-05_ODP[03] personnel or roles> are notified within <PS-05_ODP[04] time period>.
PS-05a.	the ongoing operational need for current logical and physical access authorizations to systems and facilities are reviewed and confirmed when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization;
PS-05b.	<PS-05_ODP[01] transfer or reassignment actions> are initiated within <PS-05_ODP[02] time period following the formal transfer action>;

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