NIST 800-53 Rev. 5

SC-5(2): Denial-of-service Protection | Capacity, Bandwidth, and Redundancy

Control Text:

Manage capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding denial-of-service attacks.

Managing capacity ensures that sufficient capacity is available to counter flooding attacks. Managing capacity includes establishing selected usage priorities, quotas, partitioning, or load balancing.

Related Controls

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