Title

Applications must take needed steps to protect data at rest and ensure confidentiality and integrity of application data. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers user information and system information. Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system. Applications and application users generate information throughout the course of their application use. User data generated, as well as, application specific configuration data needs to be protected. Configurations and/or rule sets for firewalls, gateways, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and filtering routers and authenticator content are examples of system information likely requiring protection. Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate. Rationale for non-applicability: This functionality is provided by the operating system, which is required to encrypt all data at rest using FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules.

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-46872r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-35585

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Expert Comments

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