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UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure
Position facilities and system components to minimize damage from physical and environmental hazards and to reduce opportunities for unauthorized access and observation. Consider physical and environmental risk when selecting facility locations, and apply compensating safeguards for equipment sited in higher-risk locations.
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Catalog revision: 24028ffcfc2b295fa1b08ee6caa84b765f0731b321496bf4f548c49ad2177028. A connection does not establish full coverage.
Attributes
- domain
- Physical & Environmental Security
- type
- preventive
- category
- physical
Details
- unified_id
- UC-PHYS-04
- title
- Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure
- statement
- Position facilities and system components to minimize damage from physical and environmental hazards and to reduce opportunities for unauthorized access and observation. Consider physical and environmental risk when selecting facility locations, and apply compensating safeguards for equipment sited in higher-risk locations.
- domain
- Physical & Environmental Security
- control_type
- preventive
- control_category
- physical
- members
- framework
- nist-800-53
- control_id
- PE-18
- coverage
- full
- relationship
- superset_of
- framework
- nist-800-53
- control_id
- PE-23
- coverage
- full
- relationship
- superset_of
- framework
- iso-27001
- control_id
- A.7.8
- coverage
- full
- relationship
- superset_of
- guidance
Source
No record-specific source URL is provided.
Connections
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure maps_to PE-23 — Facility Location
- framework
- nist-800-53
- control_id
- PE-23
- coverage
- full
- relationship
- superset_of
- delta
- Not provided
- source_version
- Rev. 5
- provenance
- mapper
- coworkcanvas-compliance-graph
- reviewDate
- 2026-09-07
- direction
- canonical_to_source
- defaultConfidence
- medium
- defaultStatus
- active
- note
- Each member is a documented relationship claim from the canonical unified control to a source control or guidance proposition. relationship: equal|superset_of (full) / intersects_with|subset_of (partial) / informs (guidance). confidence 'medium' = single-mapper, documented, not yet externally corroborated. source_version is the member framework's edition from the standard version register.
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure mitigates Physical damage to assets from disaster, terrorism or vandalism
- strength
- primary
- rationale
- Positioning facilities to minimize damage from physical/environmental hazards directly reduces disaster loss to assets.
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure mitigates Physical climate risk to facilities and supply chains
- strength
- primary
- rationale
- Weighing environmental risk in siting and locating away from flood/wildfire exposure is the direct defense against climate hazards to facilities.
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure mitigates Remote spying and shoulder-surfing of screens/documents
- strength
- related
- rationale
- Positioning and component placement to reduce observation opportunities limit distant/optical surveillance of screens and activities.
- Equipment Maintenance, Movement & Marking Control operates UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure mitigates Environmental degradation of equipment (dust, humidity, temperature, EMI)
- strength
- related
- rationale
- Siting to minimize exposure to environmental hazards reduces dust, humidity, and temperature stress on equipment.
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure maps_to PE-18 — Location of System Components
- framework
- nist-800-53
- control_id
- PE-18
- coverage
- full
- relationship
- superset_of
- delta
- Not provided
- source_version
- Rev. 5
- provenance
- mapper
- coworkcanvas-compliance-graph
- reviewDate
- 2026-09-07
- direction
- canonical_to_source
- defaultConfidence
- medium
- defaultStatus
- active
- note
- Each member is a documented relationship claim from the canonical unified control to a source control or guidance proposition. relationship: equal|superset_of (full) / intersects_with|subset_of (partial) / informs (guidance). confidence 'medium' = single-mapper, documented, not yet externally corroborated. source_version is the member framework's edition from the standard version register.
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure mitigates Inadequate physical protection and access controls
- strength
- related
- rationale
- Siting to reduce opportunities for unauthorized access lowers physical exposure of facilities to intruders.
- ISO 27001 Stage 2 Annex A Controls Audit tests UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure
- UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure maps_to A.7.8 — Equipment siting and protection
- framework
- iso-27001
- control_id
- A.7.8
- coverage
- full
- relationship
- superset_of
- delta
- Not provided
- source_version
- 2022
- provenance
- mapper
- coworkcanvas-compliance-graph
- reviewDate
- 2026-09-07
- direction
- canonical_to_source
- defaultConfidence
- medium
- defaultStatus
- active
- note
- Each member is a documented relationship claim from the canonical unified control to a source control or guidance proposition. relationship: equal|superset_of (full) / intersects_with|subset_of (partial) / informs (guidance). confidence 'medium' = single-mapper, documented, not yet externally corroborated. source_version is the member framework's edition from the standard version register.
- ISO 27001 SoA Review & Controls Assessment oversees UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure
- Security Control Assessment & POA&M Remediation tests UC-PHYS-04 — Site facilities and equipment to minimize hazards and exposure