TOP SECRET patch panels are installed in individual TOP SECRET cabinets.
Topic
Physical separation of cabinets and patch panels
Applicable to
Top Secret
History
Priority
should
Mar 2023
TOP SECRET patch panels are installed in individual TOP SECRET cabinets.
An existing control relating to TOP SECRET patch panels and non-TOP SECRET patch panels being physically separated via installation in separate cabinets was amended to ‘TOP SECRET patch panels are installed in individual TOP SECRET cabinets’ to mirror language from control ISM-1100.
2015
Agencies should physically separate TOP SECRET and non–TOP SECRET patch panels byinstalling them in separate cabinets.
2010
Agencies should physically separate TOP SECRET and non-TOP SECRET patch panels by installing them inseparate cabinets.