NIST 800-53 REV 5 • CONTINGENCY PLANNING
CP-10(5) — Failover Capability
CMMC Practice Mapping
No direct CMMC mapping
NIST 800-171 Mapping
No direct NIST 800-171 mapping
Related Controls
No related controls listed
Practitioner Notes
This enhancement requires automated failover capability — the system should automatically switch to a backup without manual intervention when a failure is detected.
Example 1: Deploy applications behind Azure Front Door or AWS Global Accelerator with health probes that automatically route traffic away from failed endpoints.
Example 2: Configure Windows Failover Clustering for critical services so that if one node fails, the service automatically restarts on a healthy cluster node.