Alternate Work Site
1483·updated Oct 6, 2026Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).
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generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: term of art.
- PE-17: Alternate Work Site - CSF Tools
- 3.10.6: Enforce safeguarding measures for CUI at alternate work sites - CSF Tools
- 03.10.06: Alternate Work Site - CSF Tools
- U.S. Department of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce
- Date updated: July 3, 2019 Withdrawn NIST Technical Series Publication
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A recognized security-control category covering any approved location where an employee conducts official organizational work outside the organization's primary or owned facility — including private residences, satellite offices, co-working spaces, government facilities, and hotel or similar transient environments. It is distinguished from "alternate processing site" (a DR/BCP concept for relocating IT systems) and from "remote access" (a network-layer concept): its focus is on the physical and operational security posture of the place of work itself. Frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53 (PE-17) and NIST SP 800-171 (3.10.6 / 03.10.06) treat it as a named control within the Physical Protection family, requiring organizations to enumerate approved sites, apply organization-defined security requirements to each, assess control effectiveness, and maintain an incident-reporting channel for personnel working at those locations.
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- plural
- alternate work sitesAlternate Work Sites
- possessive
- alternate work site'sAlternate Work Site's
- pluralpossessive
- alternate work sites'Alternate Work Sites'
Framework definitions
- §1
- Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).
- §1
- Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 4 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Governmentwide, national program allowing federal employees to work at home or at geographically convenient satellite offices for part of the work week (e.g., telecommuting).DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- A recognized security-control category covering any approved location where an employee conducts official organizational work outside the organization's primary or owned facility — including private residences, satellite offices, co-working spaces, government facilities, and hotel or similar transient environments. It is distinguished from "alternate processing site" (a DR/BCP concept for relocating IT systems) and from "remote access" (a network-layer concept): its focus is on the physical and operational security posture of the place of work itself. Frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53 (PE-17) and NIST SP 800-171 (3.10.6 / 03.10.06) treat it as a named control within the Physical Protection family, requiring organizations to enumerate approved sites, apply organization-defined security requirements to each, assess control effectiveness, and maintain an incident-reporting channel for personnel working at those locations.Drafted by the propose-term web lookup (PD-018); a curator confirms or replaces it.