CP-08 Telecommunications Services

Contingency Planning

Low Moderate High

Description

The organization identifies primary and alternate telecommunications services to support the information system and initiates necessary agreements to permit the resumption of system operations for critical mission/business functions within [Assignment: organization-defined time period] when the primary telecommunications capabilities are unavailable.\n

Supplemental Guidance

In the event that the primary and/or alternate telecommunications services are provided by a common carrier, the organization requests Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) for all telecommunications services used for national security emergency preparedness (see http://tsp.ncs.gov for a full explanation of the TSP program).\n

Enhancements

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Compliance Mappings

SOC 2 TSC

A1.2

ISO 17799 (legacy)

14.1.4

COBIT 4.1 (legacy)

DS4.1