Title

AAA Services must be configured to protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest. (Cat I impact)

Discussion

Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and tape drive) within an organizational information system. Mobile devices, laptops, desktops, and storage devices can be either lost or stolen, and the contents of their data storage (e.g., hard drives and non-volatile memory) can be read, copied, or altered. Applications and application users generate information throughout the course of their application use. This requirement addresses protection of user-generated data, as well as, operating system-specific configuration data. Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate, in accordance with the security category and/or classification of the information.

Check Content

Verify AAA Services are configured to protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest. AAA Services may leverage the capability of an operating system or purpose-built module for this purpose. Potential locations include the local file system where configurations and events are stored or in a related database table. If AAA Services are not configured to protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure AAA Services to protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest. AAA Services may leverage the capability of an operating system or require the use of a purpose-built module for this purpose. Potential locations include the local file system where configurations and events are stored or in a related database table.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-95643r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-80933

Group Title: SRG-APP-000231-AAA-000610

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.