// Level 3 · Controls

Infrastructure & Virtualization Security

IVS domain controls.

IVS-01Medium

Infrastructure and Virtualization Security Policy and Procedures

Establish, document, approve, communicate, apply, evaluate and maintain policies and procedures for infrastructure and virtualization security.

IVS-02Medium

Capacity and Resource Planning

Plan and monitor the availability, quality, and adequate capacity of resources in order to deliver the required system performance as determined by the business.

IVS-03Medium

Network Security

Monitor, encrypt and restrict communications between environments to only authenticated and authorized connections, as justified by the business.

IVS-04Medium

OS Hardening and Base Controls

Harden host and guest OS, hypervisor or infrastructure control plane according to their respective best practices, and supported by technical controls.

IVS-05Medium

Production and Non-Production Environments

Separate production and non-production environments.

IVS-06Medium

Segmentation and Segregation

Design, develop, deploy and configure applications and infrastructures such that CSP and CSC user access and intra-tenant access is appropriately segmented and segregated.

IVS-07Medium

Migration to Cloud Environments

Use secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating servers, services, applications, or data to cloud environments.

IVS-08Medium

Network Architecture Documentation

Identify and document high-risk environments.

IVS-09Medium

Network Defense

Define, implement and evaluate processes, procedures and defense-in-depth techniques for protection, detection, and timely response to network-based attacks.