Title

The application must notify appropriate individuals when accounts are modified. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, they often attempt to create a persistent method of re-establishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to simply modify or copy an existing account. Notification of account modification is one method and best practice for mitigating this risk. A comprehensive account management process will ensure that an audit trail which documents the modification of application user accounts and notifies administrators and/or application owners exists. Such a process greatly reduces the risk that accounts will be surreptitiously created or modified and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address the multitude of policy based access requirements, many application developers choose to integrate their applications with enterprise level authentication/access mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements. Such an integration allows the application developer to off-load those access control functions and focus on core application features and functionality. Examples of enterprise level authentication/access mechanisms include but are not limited to Active Directory and LDAP. Applications must support the requirement to notify appropriate individuals when accounts are modified. Rationale for non-applicability: This SRG applies to single-user applications. Therefore, account management requirements are not applicable.

Check Content

This requirement is NA for the MAPP SRG.

Fix Text

The requirement is NA. No fix is required.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-47017r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-35730

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Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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