Topic

Maintenance and repairs of high assurance IT equipment

Applicable to

Secret, Top Secret

History

Priority

required

Jun 2024

ASD’s approval is sought before undertaking any maintenance or repairs to high assurance IT equipment.

References to high assurance ICT equipment were amended to high assurance IT equipment.

Sep 2023

ASD’s approval is sought before undertaking any maintenance or repairs to high assurance ICT equipment.

References to ‘ACSC’ were replaced with ‘ASD’.

Dec 2021

The ACSC’s approval is sought before undertaking any maintenance or repairs to high assurance ICT equipment.

Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and security controls throughout the publication. This included:

• A review from the Using the Information Security Manual chapter through to the Guidelines for Media chapter.

• Security controls suitable for all audiences have been identified with the ‘All’ applicability marking while additional security controls suitable for just government audiences have been identified with the O, P, S and TS applicability markings.

• Security controls suitable for specific classifications have been amended to include their classification(s) in the wording of the security controls to reduce the reliance on applicability markings to confer suitability.

• Tables in security controls have been converted into prose to allow for inclusion in the SSP annex template and the XML list of security controls.

• The use of ‘official’ and ‘highly classified’ terminology has been replaced with specific classifications to remove ambiguity.

• Security controls relating to high assurance ICT equipment have had their applicability narrowed to ‘S, TS’ reflecting that they are intended for the protection of SECRET and TOP SECRET systems and data.

2015

Agencies must have ASD approval before undertaking any repairs to High Assurance products.

2010

Agencies are required to seek DSD approval before undertaking any repairs to high assurance productsand HGCE.