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SC-7(13)Isolation Of Security Tools, Mechanisms, And Support Components

>Control Description

The enterprise should provide separation and isolation of development, test, and security assessment tools and operational environments and relevant monitoring tools within the enterprise’s information systems and networks. This control applies the entity responsible for creating software and hardware, to include federal agencies and prime contractors. As such, this controls applies to the federal agency and applicable supplier information systems and networks. Enterprises should require their prime contractors to implement this control and flow down this requirement to relevant sub-tier contractors. If a compromise or information leakage happens in any one environment, the other environments should still be protected through the separation and isolation mechanisms or techniques.

>Cross-Framework Mappings

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