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The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-51399 OSX8-00-00785 SV-65609r1_rule Medium
Description
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.
STIG Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG 2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53735r1_chk )
To check if FileVault 2 is enabled, run the following command:

sudo fdesetup status

If FileVault is "OFF", this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-56197r1_fix)
Open System Preferences->Security and Privacy, and navigate to the FileVault tab. Use this panel to configure full-disk encryption.