PE-11 Emergency Power

Control: The organization provides a short-term uninterruptible power supply to facilitate an orderly shutdown of the information system in the event of a primary power source loss.

Supplemental Guidance: None.

Control Enhancements:

(1) The organization provides a long-term alternate power supply for the information system that is capable of maintaining minimally required operational capability in the event of an extended loss of the primary power source.

(2) The organization provides a long-term alternate power supply for the information system that is self-contained and not reliant on external power generation.

Baseline: LOW Not Selected MOD PE-11 HIGH PE-11 (1)

Family: Physical And Environmental Protection

Class: Operational

ISO 17799 mapping: 9.2.2

COBIT 4.1 mapping: DS12.4

PCI-DSS v2 mapping: None.