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SC-5 (2)

SC-5 (2): Excess Capacity / Bandwidth / Redundancy

The information system manages excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding denial of service attacks.

Supplemental

Managing excess capacity ensures that sufficient capacity is available to counter flooding attacks. Managing excess capacity may include, for example, establishing selected usage priorities, quotas, or partitioning.

CIA Levels
Confidentiality	unknown
Integrity	unknown
Availability	moderate

Overlays
None

Related Controls

The controls below (if any) were marked by NIST as being related to SC-5 (2).

Control	Description
No controls

Enhancements

The controls below (if any) add on to the requirements of SC-5 (2).

Control	Description
No controls

Related CCIs

The CCIs below are tied to SC-5 (2).

CCI	Definition
CCI-001095	The information system manages excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial of service attacks.