PS-5

PS-5 PERSONNEL TRANSFER

Overview

Number	Title	Impact	Priority	Subject Area
PS-5	Personnel Transfer	LOW	P2	Personnel Security

Instructions
The organization: PS-5a. Reviews and confirms ongoing operational need for current logical and physical access authorizations to information systems/facilities when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization; PS-5b. Initiates Assignment: organization-defined transfer or reassignment actions within Assignment: organization-defined time period following the formal transfer action; PS-5c. Modifies access authorization as needed to correspond with any changes in operational need due to reassignment or transfer; and PS-5d. Notifies Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles within Assignment: organization-defined time period.

Instructions

The organization:

PS-5a.

Reviews and confirms ongoing operational need for current logical and physical access authorizations to information systems/facilities when individuals are reassigned or transferred to other positions within the organization;

PS-5b.

Initiates Assignment: organization-defined transfer or reassignment actions within Assignment: organization-defined time period following the formal transfer action;

PS-5c.

Modifies access authorization as needed to correspond with any changes in operational need due to reassignment or transfer; and

PS-5d.

Notifies Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles within Assignment: organization-defined time period.

Guidance
This control applies when reassignments or transfers of individuals are permanent or of such extended durations as to make the actions warranted. Organizations define actions appropriate for the types of reassignments or transfers, whether permanent or extended. Actions that may be required for personnel transfers or reassignments to other positions within organizations include, for example: (i) returning old and issuing new keys, identification cards, and building passes; (ii) closing information system accounts and establishing new accounts; (iii) changing information system access authorizations (i.e., privileges); and (iv) providing for access to official records to which individuals had access at previous work locations and in previous information system accounts.

Guidance

This control applies when reassignments or transfers of individuals are permanent or of such extended durations as to make the actions warranted. Organizations define actions appropriate for the types of reassignments or transfers, whether permanent or extended. Actions that may be required for personnel transfers or reassignments to other positions within organizations include, for example: (i) returning old and issuing new keys, identification cards, and building passes; (ii) closing information system accounts and establishing new accounts; (iii) changing information system access authorizations (i.e., privileges); and (iv) providing for access to official records to which individuals had access at previous work locations and in previous information system accounts.

Enhancements