OFFICIAL: Sensitive and PROTECTED wall outlet boxes are coloured neither salmon pink nor red.
Topic
Wall outlet box colours
Applicable to
Official, Protected
History
Priority
must not
Sep 2023
OFFICIAL: Sensitive and PROTECTED wall outlet boxes are coloured neither salmon pink nor red.
References to ‘OFFICIAL systems’, ‘OFFICIAL mobile devices’, ‘OFFICIAL cables’ and ‘OFFICIAL wall outlet boxes’ were replaced with OFFICIAL: Sensitive terminology (e.g. OFFICIAL: Sensitive mobile devices) to correctly reflect the highest sensitivity of data such systems, devices and infrastructure can process, store and communicate (i.e. up to Business Impact Level 2).
Dec 2021
OFFICIAL and PROTECTED wall outlet boxes are coloured neither salmon pink nor red.
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.
Mar 2021
The wall outlet box colours in the following table are used (see source document for referenced table).
Security control 1107 was amended to remove specific wall outlet box colours for PROTECTED and below systems. Moving forward, only highly classified systems will have designated wall outlet box colours.
Jan 2021
The wall outlet box colours in the following table are used (see source document for referenced table).
Dec 2019
The wall outlet box colours in the following table are used (see source document for referenced table).
Security control 1107 was modified slightly to ensure consistency of terminology throughout the publication.
Nov 2019
The wall outlet colours in the following table are used. (See source document for referenced table)
Oct 2019
The wall outlet colours in the following table are used. (See source document for referenced table)
Security control 1108 was merged with security control 1107. In addition, wall outlet colours for non-TOP SECRET infrastructure have been specified to match recommended cabling colours.