Title

The operating system must uniquely identify and must 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 processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated to all accesses, except for the following: 1) 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 2) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Check Content

Verify the operating system uniquely identifies and authenticates organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the operating system to uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-203639r557645_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-203639

Group Title: SRG-OS-000104

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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