Advisory Communication and Network Security Standard

Date:	10/05/2018
Organization:	Enterprise Security Office
Referenced Sources:	MGL Chapter 7D, Section 2

The Communication and Network Security Standard details requirements for network security management, remote access security management, third-party network access and secure file transfer by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Purpose

This standard establishes security requirements for the Commonwealth’s network infrastructure and connectivity, including:

• Network architecture requirements to include redundancy, network segmentation, encryption and the documentation of network diagrams
• Use of network infrastructure protection such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, web-proxies and data loss prevention
• Controls to protect end-point computing systems
• Requirements for remote access
• Requirements for third-party business-to-business connections
• Requirements for secure file transfer