164.310(a)(1) Facility Access Controls (Standard)
164.310(a)(1) in HIPAA Security Rule (the HIPAA Security Rule as it currently stands). All HIPAA Security Rule controls held. Open HIPAA Security Rule on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
Facility Access Controls (Standard). Implement policies limiting physical access to electronic information systems and facilities while ensuring properly authorized access is allowed. NIST recommends layered physical security and visitor management.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
SOC 2
- SOC2-CC6.4 CC6.4 Restricting physical access to facilities and assets (closest match)
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5
- NIST800-PE-2 PE-2 Physical Access Authorizations (closest match)
- NIST800-PE-3 PE-3 Physical Access Control (closest match)
- NIST800-PE-6 PE-6 Monitoring Physical Access (closest match)
- NIST800-PE-8 PE-8 Visitor Access Records (closest match)
- NIST800-PE-14 PE-14 Environmental Controls (closest match)
- NIST800-PE-16 PE-16 Delivery and Removal (closest match)
- NIST800-PE-18 PE-18 Location of System Components (closest match)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: Physical), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the facility access and visitor records
- the workstation-use and device-control records
- the media-disposal and re-use records