3.10.3Escort visitors

Visitors are accompanied and their activity monitored.

PE
Level 1
1 pt
Rev. 3: Withdrawn and incorporated elsewhere

The requirement, verbatim

NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 · 3.10.3
Escort visitors and monitor visitor activity.

Requirement 3.10.3, practice name in the CMMC assessment guide: Escort Visitors.

NIST's discussion

Individuals with permanent physical access authorization credentials are not considered visitors. Audit logs can be used to monitor visitor activity.

NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2, discussion under 3.10.3. Whitespace normalised; wording unchanged.

Assessment objectives

An assessor decides each of these separately. The requirement is met only when every objective is.

[a] visitors are escorted
[b] visitor activity is monitored

NIST SP 800-171A, determination statements for 3.10.3.

For assessors: examine, interview, test

NIST SP 800-171A names what an assessor may examine, whom they may interview, and what they may test for this requirement. Assessors select from these lists; they are not a checklist of everything you must produce.

Examine

Physical and environmental protection policy
procedures addressing physical access control
system security plan
physical access control logs or records
inventory records of physical access control devices
system entry and exit points
records of key and lock combination changes
storage locations for physical access control devices
physical access control devices
list of security safeguards controlling access to designated publicly accessible areas within facility
other relevant documents or records

Interview

Personnel with physical access control responsibilities
personnel with information security responsibilities

Test

Organizational processes for physical access control
mechanisms supporting or implementing physical access control
physical access control devices

NIST SP 800-171A, potential assessment methods and objects for 3.10.3.

Evidence

No evidence examples are published for this requirement yet. The objectives above are what an assessor checks; evidence is whatever shows each one is true in your environment, dated and kept with your system security plan.

Scoring weight

Worth 1 point. Not meeting this requirement subtracts 1 from your 110-point SPRS score.

DoD NIST SP 800-171 Assessment Methodology v1.2.1 weighting, as carried in the Bedrock scoring table. The score starts at 110 and subtracts the weight of every requirement not met.

In Rev. 3

Rev. 2 is what your contract requires today. A standing DoD class deviation keeps Rev. 2 in force; NIST has published Rev. 3, but it is not adopted for contracts. In Rev. 3 this requirement is withdrawn and incorporated elsewhere: 03.10.07 Physical Access Control.

See the Rev. 2 and Rev. 3 wording word by word, or start with the status page.

Where this page's facts come from

Requirement text: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:migrations/004_reference_requirements.sql#Requirement.basicRequirement@rev2
Discussion: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:migrations/004_reference_requirements.sql#Requirement.discussion@rev2
Practice name: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:migrations/004_reference_requirements.sql#Requirement.title@rev2 (CMMC Assessment Guide practice name)
Objectives: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:migrations/005_reference_objectives.sql#AssessmentObjective.description@rev2
Examine, interview, test: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:migrations/005_reference_objectives.sql#AssessmentObjective.description@rev2 ({examineGuidance, interviewGuidance, testGuidance})
Level: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:migrations/021_fix_level1_requirements.sql#Requirement.cmmcLevel@rev2
Weight: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:internal/cmmc/requirement_values.go#requirementValues (DoD AM v1.2.1 / eMASS L2 template v3.8)
Rev. 3 mapping: bedrock-cmmc-api@89b8e8e:docs/reference/nist-800-171-rev3/normalized/r2_r3_transition_map.json#r2_to_r3
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