An authorised RF and IR device register for SECRET and TOP SECRET areas is developed, implemented, maintained and verified on a regular basis.
Topic
Bringing Radio Frequency and infrared devices into facilities
Applicable to
Secret, Top Secret
History
Priority
Should
Dec 2022
An authorised RF and IR device register for SECRET and TOP SECRET areas is developed, implemented, maintained and verified on a regular basis.
Existing controls relating to the maintenance of registers were amended to ensure registers are developed and implemented in the first instance.
Mar 2022
An authorised RF and IR device register is maintained for SECRET and TOP SECRET areas and verified on a regular basis.
Due to the confusing use of audit terminology, references to ‘audited’ have been changed to ‘verified’. For example, an ICT equipment register is verified (rather than audited) on a regular basis. This will allow security personnel, or other suitable parties, to conduct such activities rather than having to rely on the use of an organisation’s internal auditors.
Aug 2019
An authorised RF devices for SECRET and TOP SECRET areas register is maintained and regularly audited.
Security control 1543 was modified to refer explicitly to an authorised RF devices for SECRET and TOP SECRET areas register.
Jul 2019
A register is maintained of authorised RF devices that can be used in SECRET and TOP SECRET areas.
Apr 2019
A register is maintained of authorised RF devices that can be used in SECRET and TOP SECRET areas.
Security control 1543 was added to ensure that RF devices used in highly classified environments are recorded in a register.