SC-5(2)

Requirement

Manage capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks.

Discussion

Managing capacity ensures that sufficient capacity is available to counter flooding attacks. Managing capacity includes establishing selected usage priorities, quotas, partitioning, or load balancing.

NIST 800-53A Assessment Guidance

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and communications protection policy; procedures addressing denial-of-service protection; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system audit records; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: System/network administrators; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; organizational personnel with incident response responsibilities; system developer].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms implementing the management of system bandwidth, capacity, and redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks].

ID	Assessment Objectives
SC-05(02)	capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancies to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks are managed.

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