Control statement
Employ [Organization-defined: asset location technologies] to track and monitor the location and movement of [Organization-defined: assets] within [Organization-defined: controlled areas].
Discussion
Asset location technologies can help ensure that critical assets—including vehicles, equipment, and system components—remain in authorized locations. Organizations consult with the Office of the General Counsel and senior agency official for privacy regarding the deployment and use of asset location technologies to address potential privacy concerns.
Organization-defined parameters
These values must be resolved through the organization’s tailoring and governance process. Bracketed parameter references in the control text identify where a decision is required.
From control text to operational evidence
Use Asset Monitoring and Tracking as a testable risk decision. Translate the official statement into accountable people, repeatable processes, configured technology, and evidence that demonstrates the outcome over time. In this family, pay particular attention to physical access, facility protection, environmental safeguards, and visitor accountability.
Implementation workflow
- Define the control boundary, responsible owner, inherited portions, and systems or processes in scope.
- Resolve each organization-defined parameter before declaring the control implemented.
- Document how the implementation satisfies every clause of the official control statement.
- Collect evidence as a normal byproduct of operation rather than only before an assessment.
- Review exceptions, changes, and monitoring results on a risk-based cadence.
Evidence examples
- badge and visitor logs
- physical access reviews
- facility diagrams and sensor records
- environmental and power test results
Common failure patterns
- logical security assumptions invalidated by physical access
- tailgating and visitor exceptions normalized
- critical infrastructure not included in access reviews
- environmental alarms not integrated into response
Questions practitioners should ask
- What risk decision is this control intended to support in this system?
- Which parts are implemented locally, inherited, shared, or not applicable—and what evidence supports that decision?
- Do the documented narrative, deployed configuration, operating process, and collected evidence agree?
- What event or threshold requires the implementation to be reviewed or changed?
Assessment objectives and methods
Show the assessment objective
[Organization-defined: asset location technologies] are employed to track and monitor the location and movement of [Organization-defined: assets] within [Organization-defined: controlled areas].
Examine
- Physical and environmental protection policy
- procedures addressing asset monitoring and tracking
- documentation showing the use of asset location technologies
- system configuration documentation
- list of organizational assets requiring tracking and monitoring
- asset monitoring and tracking records
- system security plan
- privacy plan
- other relevant documents or records
Interview
- Organizational personnel with asset monitoring and tracking responsibilities
- legal counsel
- organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
Test
- Organizational processes for tracking and monitoring assets
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the tracking and monitoring of assets
Related controls
These relationships come from the official OSCAL catalog. They indicate useful dependencies or context, not automatic inheritance or equivalence.
Authoritative sources
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