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MA-6

MA-6: Timely Maintenance

The organization obtains maintenance support and/or spare parts for [one of ] within [one of ] of failure.

Supplemental

Organizations specify the information system components that result in increased risk to organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, or the Nation when the functionality provided by those components is not operational. Organizational actions to obtain maintenance support typically include having appropriate contracts in place.

CIA Levels
Confidentiality	unknown
Integrity	unknown
Availability	moderate

Overlays
None

CSF Categories
PR.MA-1

Related Controls

The controls below (if any) were marked by NIST as being related to MA-6.

Control	Description
CM-8	The organization: a: Develops and documents an inventory of information system components that: 1: Accurately reflects the current information system; 2: Includes all components within the authorization boundary of the information system; 3: Is at the level of granularity deemed necessary for tracking and reporting; and 4: Includes [one of ]; and b: Reviews and updates the information system component inventory [one of ].
CP-2	The organization: a: Develops a contingency plan for the information system that: 1: Identifies essential missions and business functions and associated contingency requirements; 2: Provides recovery objectives, restoration priorities, and metrics; 3: Addresses contingency roles, responsibilities, assigned individuals with contact information; 4: Addresses maintaining essential missions and business functions despite an information system disruption, compromise, or failure; 5: Addresses eventual, full information system restoration without deterioration of the security safeguards originally planned and implemented; and 6: Is reviewed and approved by [one of ]; b: Distributes copies of the contingency plan to [one of ]; c: Coordinates contingency planning activities with incident handling activities; d: Reviews the contingency plan for the information system [one of ]; e: Updates the contingency plan to address changes to the organization, information system, or environment of operation and problems encountered during contingency plan implementation, execution, or testing; f: Communicates contingency plan changes to [one of ]; and g: Protects the contingency plan from unauthorized disclosure and modification.
CP-7	The organization: a: Establishes an alternate processing site including necessary agreements to permit the transfer and resumption of [one of ] for essential missions/business functions within [one of ] when the primary processing capabilities are unavailable; b: Ensures that equipment and supplies required to transfer and resume operations are available at the alternate processing site or contracts are in place to support delivery to the site within the organization-defined time period for transfer/resumption; and c: Ensures that the alternate processing site provides information security safeguards equivalent to those of the primary site.
SA-14	The organization identifies critical information system components and functions by performing a criticality analysis for [one of ] at [one of ].
SA-15	The organization: a: Requires the developer of the information system, system component, or information system service to follow a documented development process that: 1: Explicitly addresses security requirements; 2: Identifies the standards and tools used in the development process; 3: Documents the specific tool options and tool configurations used in the development process; and 4: Documents, manages, and ensures the integrity of changes to the process and/or tools used in development; and b: Reviews the development process, standards, tools, and tool options/configurations [one of ] to determine if the process, standards, tools, and tool options/configurations selected and employed can satisfy [one of ].

Enhancements

The controls below (if any) add on to the requirements of MA-6.

Control	Description
MA-6(1)	The organization performs preventive maintenance on [one of ] at [one of ].
MA-6(2)	The organization performs predictive maintenance on [one of ] at [one of ].
MA-6(3)	The organization employs automated mechanisms to transfer predictive maintenance data to a computerized maintenance management system.

Related CCIs

The CCIs below are tied to MA-6.

CCI	Definition
CCI-000903	Obtain maintenance support and/or spare parts for organization-defined system components within an organization-defined time period of failure.
CCI-002896	Defines the system components for which it obtains maintenance support and/or spare parts.
CCI-002897	Defines a time period for obtaining maintenance support and/or spare parts for organization-defined system components after a failure.