Title

The DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). (Cat II impact)

Discussion

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses, except the following: (i) Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and (ii) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals using shared accounts, for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Check Content

Review DBMS settings to determine whether organizational users are uniquely identified and authenticated when logging on/connecting to the system. If organizational users are not uniquely identified and authenticated, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure DBMS settings to uniquely identify and authenticate all organizational users who log on/connect to the system.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-206554r879589_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-206554

Group Title: SRG-APP-000148

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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