MA-4(4) Authentication and Separation of Maintenance Sessions
Control enhancement of MA-4 Nonlocal Maintenance
Control
Protect nonlocal maintenance sessions by:
Employing [Assignment: authenticators that are replay resistant] ; and
Separating the maintenance sessions from other network sessions with the system by either:
Physically separated communications paths; or
Logically separated communications paths.
Discussion
Communications paths can be logically separated using encryption.
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