SI-13(5): Failover Capability

Control Family:

System And Information Integrity

Parent Control:

SI-13: Predictable Failure Prevention

Priority:

P0: Security control not selected in any baseline.

CSF v1.1 References:

PR.IP-2

Baselines:

(Not part of any baseline)

Next Version:

NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5:
SI-13(5): Failover Capability

Control Statement

The organization provides [Selection: real-time; near real-time] [Assignment: organization-defined failover capability] for the information system.

Supplemental Guidance

Failover refers to the automatic switchover to an alternate information system upon the failure of the primary information system. Failover capability includes, for example, incorporating mirrored information system operations at alternate processing sites or periodic data mirroring at regular intervals defined by recovery time periods of organizations.