SC-41 Port and I/O Device Access

System and Communications Protection

Description

[Assignment: organization-defined parameters] disable or remove [Assignment: organization-defined parameters] on the following systems or system components: [Assignment: organization-defined parameters].

Supplemental Guidance

Connection ports include Universal Serial Bus (USB), Thunderbolt, and Firewire (IEEE 1394). Input/output (I/O) devices include compact disc and digital versatile disc drives. Disabling or removing such connection ports and I/O devices helps prevent the exfiltration of information from systems and the introduction of malicious code from those ports or devices. Physically disabling or removing ports and/or devices is the stronger action.

Changes from Rev 4

No significant title changes from Rev 4.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques (5)

ATT&CK v16.1

Techniques mitigated by this control, mapped via CTID.

Initial Access 2 Lateral Movement 1 Collection 1 Exfiltration 2

Compliance Mappings

ISO 27002:2022

8.1

COBIT 2019

DSS05

MAS TRM

11

BSI IT-Grundschutz

NET.3.1

OSFI B-13

B-13.3.2

BIO2

8.1

RBI CSF

Annex1.4

HKMA TM-E-1

TME1.11.1TME1.11.3

EU CRA

CRA.I.2j

SAMA CSF

3.3

CBB TM

TM-8

CBUAE

CR-7

CBE CSF

CTO-6CTO-7

SA JS2

JS2-7.2JS2-8.4

CBN CSF

Part3.3

BoG CISD

CISD-VI

SEBI CSCRF

PR.ES

BOT Cyber Resilience

Ch2.6