| V-26680 | Medium | The application must display security attributes in human-readable form on each object output from the system to system output devices to identify an organization-identified set of special dissemination, handling, or distribution instructions using organization-identified human readable, standard naming conventions. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes... |
| V-26681 | Medium | Applications providing remote access capabilities must utilize approved cryptography to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions. | Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the... |
| V-26682 | Medium | Applications providing remote access connectivity must use cryptography to protect the integrity of the remote access session. | Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the... |
| V-26849 | Medium | The application must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes: time stamps,... |
| V-26684 | Medium | The application must employ automated mechanisms to facilitate the monitoring and control of remote access methods. | Remote network access is accomplished by leveraging common communication protocols and establishing a remote connection. These connections will occur over the public Internet.
Remote access is... |
| V-26685 | Medium | Applications providing remote access must have capabilities that allow all remote access to be routed through managed access control points. | This requirement relates to the use of applications providing remote access services. Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system)... |
| V-26686 | Medium | The application must monitor for unauthorized remote connections to the information system on an organization-defined frequency. | Organizations need to monitor for unauthorized remote access connections to information systems in order to determine if break-in attempts or other unauthorized activity is occurring. There are... |
| V-26687 | Medium | The application must ensure remote sessions for accessing an organization-defined list of security functions and security-relevant information are audited. | Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the... |
| V-26688 | Medium | Applications must support the capability to disable network protocols deemed by the organization to be nonsecure except for explicitly identified components in support of specific operational requirements. | This control is related to remote access but more specifically to the networking protocols allowing systems to communicate. Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by... |
| V-27044 | Medium | The organization must isolate organization-defined key information security tools, mechanisms, and support components from other internal information system components via physically separate subnets with managed interfaces to other portions of the system. | The application must isolate organization-defined key information security tools, mechanisms, and support components from other internal information system components via physically separate... |
| V-27047 | Medium | Boundary protection applications must prevent discovery of specific system components (or devices) composing a managed interface. | Firewall control requirement for isolating and preventing the discovery of management interfaces. This control enhancement is intended to protect the network addresses of information system... |
| V-27046 | Medium | The information system must route all networked, privileged accesses through a dedicated, managed interface for purposes of access control and auditing. | Managed interfaces employing boundary protection devices include: proxies, gateways, routers, firewalls, guards, or encrypted tunnels arranged in effective security architecture (e.g., routers... |
| V-27041 | Medium | Applications must limit the use of resources by priority and not impede the host from servicing processes designated as a higher-priority. | Priority protection helps prevent a lower-priority process from delaying or interfering with the information system servicing any higher-priority process. This control does not apply to components... |
| V-26847 | Medium | The application must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes: time stamps,... |
| V-27043 | Medium | The application must be capable of implementing host-based boundary protection mechanisms for servers, workstations, and mobile devices. | A host-based boundary protection mechanism is a host-based firewall. Host-based boundary protection mechanisms are employed on mobile devices, such as notebook/laptop computers, and other types of... |
| V-26845 | Medium | The application must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes: time stamps,... |
| V-26929 | Medium | The application must protect audit data records and integrity by using cryptographic mechanisms. | Protection of audit records and audit data is of critical importance. Cryptographic mechanisms are the industry established standard used to protect the integrity of audit data. An example of a... |
| V-26928 | Medium | The application, when using PKI-based authentication, must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key. | The cornerstone of the PKI is the private key used to encrypt or digitally sign information.
If the private key is stolen, this will lead to the compromise of the authentication and... |
| V-27165 | Medium | The application must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data.
Depending upon the log format and application, system and application log tools may... |
| V-26858 | Medium | Applications must display an approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system. | Applications are required to display an approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system providing privacy and security notices consistent with applicable... |
| V-26921 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce password complexity by the number of special characters used. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password complexity is one factor in determining how... |
| V-26920 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce password complexity by the number of numeric characters used. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password complexity is one factor of several that... |
| V-26923 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce password encryption for storage. | Applications must enforce password encryption when storing passwords. Passwords need to be protected at all times and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are... |
| V-26922 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce the number of characters that get changed when passwords are changed. | Passwords need to be changed at specific policy based intervals.
If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of their password when they... |
| V-26925 | Medium | Applications must enforce password minimum lifetime restrictions. | Password minimum lifetime is defined as: the minimum period of time, (typically in days) a user's password must be in effect before the user can change it.
Restricting this setting limits the... |
| V-26924 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce password encryption for transmission. | Passwords need to be protected at all times and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords during transmission. |
| V-26927 | Medium | The application, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path with status information to an accepted trust anchor. | A trust anchor is an authoritative entity represented via a public key and associated data. It is used in the context of public key infrastructures, X.509 digital certificates, and DNSSEC.
When... |
| V-26926 | Medium | Applications must enforce password maximum lifetime restrictions. | Password maximum lifetime is defined as: the maximum period of time, (typically in days) a user's password may be in effect before the user is forced to change it.
Passwords need to be changed... |
| V-30533 | Medium | The information system must protect wireless access to the system using authentication. | Wireless technologies include, but are not limited to, microwave, satellite, packet radio (UHF/VHF), 802.11x, and Bluetooth.
Wireless networks use authentication protocols (e.g., EAP/TLS, PEAP),... |
| V-30532 | Medium | The information system must protect wireless access to the system using encryption. | Wireless technologies include, but are not limited to, microwave, satellite, packet radio (UHF/VHF), 802.11x, and Bluetooth.
Wireless networks use authentication protocols (e.g., EAP/TLS, PEAP),... |
| V-26914 | Medium | Applications must support organizational requirements to disable user accounts after an organization-defined time period of inactivity. | Users are often the first line of defense within an application. Active users take notice of system and data conditions and are usually the first to notify systems administrators when they notice... |
| V-27160 | Medium | The application must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion. | If audit data were to become compromised then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is impossible to achieve.
To ensure the... |
| V-27049 | Medium | Boundary protection applications must fail securely in the event of an operational failure. | Fail secure is a condition achieved by the application of a set of information system mechanisms to ensure that in the event of an operational failure of a boundary protection device at a managed... |
| V-26848 | Medium | The information system must provide additional protection for mobile devices accessed via login by purging information from the device after organization-defined number of consecutive, unsuccessful login attempts to the mobile device. | Mobile devices present additional risks related to attempted unauthorized access. If they are lost, stolen or misplaced, attempts can be made to unlock the device by guessing the pin. In order... |
| V-27166 | Medium | The application must have the capability to produce audit records on hardware-enforced, write-once media. | Applications are typically designed to incorporate their audit logs into the auditing sub-system hosted by the operating system. However, in some instances application developers may decide to... |
| V-26967 | Medium | The application must reject or delay, as defined by the organization, network traffic generated above configurable traffic volume thresholds. | It is critical when a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required; actions are automatically taken to mitigate the failure or risk of failure.
One method used to thwart the... |
| V-26902 | Medium | The application must allow designated organizational personnel to select which auditable events are to be audited by specific components of the system. | Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system, such as network interfaces, hard disks, modems, etc. From an application perspective, certain specific... |
| V-27125 | Medium | Application software used to detect the presence of unauthorized software must employ automated detection mechanisms and notify designated organizational officials in accordance with the organization-defined frequency. | Scanning software is purpose built to check for vulnerabilities in the information system and hosted applications and is also used to enumerate platforms, software flaws, and improper... |
| V-26937 | Medium | The application must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users). | Non-organizational users include all information system users other than organizational users which include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status... |
| V-26934 | Medium | The application must support the enforcement of logical access restrictions associated with changes to application configuration. | When dealing with access restrictions pertaining to change control, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or... |
| V-26935 | Medium | The application must use mechanisms for authentication to a cryptographic module that meet the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for such authentication. | Encryption is only as good as the encryption modules utilized. Unapproved cryptographic module algorithms cannot be verified, and cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity and... |
| V-26932 | Medium | The application must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals. | To prevent the compromise of authentication information such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback from the information system shall not provide any information that would... |
| V-27116 | Medium | The application must either implement compensating security controls or the organization explicitly accepts the risk of not performing the verification as required. | Application security functional testing involves testing the application for conformance to the applications security function specifications, as well as, for the underlying security model. The... |
| V-26930 | Medium | Applications must ensure that PKI-based authentication maps the authenticated identity to the user account. | The cornerstone of the PKI is the private key used to encrypt or digitally sign information. The key by itself is a cryptographic value that does not contain specific user information. |
| V-27114 | Medium | The application must terminate all sessions and network connections when non-local maintenance is completed. | Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal... |
| V-27052 | Medium | Applications providing remote connectivity must prevent remote devices that have established a non-remote connection with the system from communicating outside of the communications path with resources in external networks. | This control enhancement is implemented within the remote device (e.g., notebook/laptop computer) via configuration settings that are not configurable by the user of that device. An example of a... |
| V-27053 | Medium | Proxy applications must support logging individual Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sessions and blocking specific Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), domain names, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Proxy applications must also be configurable with organization-defined lists of authorized and unauthorized websites. | External networks are networks outside the control of the organization. Proxy servers support logging individual Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sessions and blocking specific Uniform Resource... |
| V-27050 | Medium | Boundary protection applications must be capable of preventing public access into the organization’s internal networks except as appropriately mediated by managed interfaces. | Access into an organization's internal network and to key internal boundaries must be tightly controlled and managed. Applications monitoring and/or controlling communications at the external... |
| V-27051 | Medium | Any software application designed to function as a firewall must be capable employing a default deny all configuration. | A firewall default deny is a firewall configuration setting that will force the administrator to explicitly allow network or application traffic rather than allowing all traffic by default. The... |
| V-27048 | Medium | Applications designed to enforce protocol formats must employ automated mechanisms to enforce strict adherence to protocol format. | Automated mechanisms used to enforce protocol formats include, deep packet inspection firewalls and XML gateways. These devices verify adherence to the protocol specification (e.g., IEEE) at the... |
| V-27057 | Medium | Applications must protect the integrity of transmitted information. | Ensuring the integrity of transmitted information requires that applications take feasible measures to employ security during data transport. Examples include but are not limited to SSL, TLS and... |
| V-26938 | Medium | The application must support the organizational requirement to employ automated mechanisms enforcing access restrictions. | When dealing with access restrictions pertaining to change control, it should be noted, any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or... |
| V-26939 | Medium | Applications that are designed and intended to address incident response scenarios must provide a configurable capability to automatically disable an information system if any of the organization defined security violations are detected. | When responding to a security incident a capability must exist allowing authorized personnel to disable a particular system if the system exhibits a security violation and the organization... |
| V-26915 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce minimum password length. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password length is one factor of several that helps... |
| V-27168 | Medium | The application must support the requirement to back up audit data and records onto a different system or media than the system being audited on an organization-defined frequency. | Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited on an... |
| V-26675 | Medium | The application must maintain and support the use of organization defined security attributes to information in transmission. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes... |
| V-27042 | Medium | Applications functioning in the capacity of a firewall must check incoming communications to ensure the communications are coming from an authorized source and routed to an authorized destination. | In regards to boundary controls such as routers and firewalls, examples of restricting and prohibiting communications are: restricting external web traffic only to organizational web servers... |
| V-26830 | Medium | Applications must be able to function within separate processing domains (virtualized systems), when specified, so as to enable finer-grained allocation of user privileges. | Applications must employ the concept of least privilege, allowing only authorized accesses for users (and processes acting on behalf of users) which are necessary to accomplish assigned tasks in... |
| V-26734 | Medium | The application must employ automated mechanisms enabling authorized users to make information sharing decisions based on access authorizations of sharing partners and access restrictions on information to be shared. | User based collaboration and information sharing applications present challenges regarding classification and dissemination of information generated and shared among the application users. These... |
| V-26735 | Medium | The application must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to the system in accordance with applicable policy. | Strong access controls are critical to securing application data. Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement... |
| V-26737 | Medium | The application must enforce dual authorization, based on organizational policies and procedures for organization-defined privileged commands. | Dual authorization requires 2 distinct approving authorities to approve the use of an application command prior to it being invoked. This capability is typically reserved for specific... |
| V-26730 | Medium | The application must automatically audit account disabling actions and notify appropriate individuals. | When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes themselves.... |
| V-26731 | Medium | The application must automatically audit account termination and notify appropriate individuals. | When application accounts are terminated, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes... |
| V-26732 | Medium | Applications must support the organizational requirement to automatically monitor on atypical usage of accounts. | Atypical account usage is behavior that is not part of normal usage cycles. For example, user account activity occurring after hours or on weekends.
A comprehensive account management process... |
| V-26733 | Medium | Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications must dynamically manage user privileges and associated access authorizations. | Web services are web applications providing a method of communication between two or more different electronic devices. They are normally used by applications to provide each other with data. ... |
| V-27096 | Medium | The organization must employ a wireless Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect potential compromises/breaches to the information system.
| Wireless IDS is used to detect and alarm on known attack patterns.
This is a requirement to deploy wireless IDS network monitoring. This does not apply to applications. |
| V-27164 | Medium | The application must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data.
Depending upon the log format and application, system and application log tools may... |
| V-27145 | Medium | Applications must provide the capability to automatically process audit records for events of interest based upon selectable, event criteria. | Audit reduction is used to reduce the volume of audit records in order to facilitate manual review. Before a security review information systems and/or applications with an audit reduction... |
| V-27097 | Medium | Applications providing malware and/or firewall protection must monitor inbound and outbound communications for unauthorized activities or conditions. | Unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions include internal traffic indicating the presence of malicious code within an information system or propagating among system components, the... |
| V-26966 | Medium | Backup / Disaster Recovery oriented applications must be capable of backing up user-level information per a defined frequency. | Information system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability.
User-level information is data generated by information system and/or application users. In order to... |
| V-26772 | Medium | Applications designed to control information flow must provide the ability to detect unsanctioned information being transmitted across security domains. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26917 | Medium | The application must enforce configurable traffic volume thresholds representing auditing capacity for network traffic. | It is critical when a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required; actions are automatically taken to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware... |
| V-26912 | Medium | Applications managing network connectivity must have the capability to authenticate devices before establishing network connections by using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based. | Device authentication is a solution enabling an organization to manage both users and devices.
It is an additional layer of authentication ensuring only specific pre-authorized devices operated... |
| V-26943 | Medium | Applications must prevent the installation of organization-defined critical software programs not signed with a certificate that has been recognized and approved by the organization. | Any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or application can potentially have significant effects on the overall security of the system.... |
| V-27101 | Medium | Applications that detect and alarm on security events such as Intrusion Detection, Firewalls, Anti-Virus, or Malware must provide near real-time alert notification. | When an intrusion detection security event occurs it is imperative the application that has detected the event immediately notify the appropriate support personnel so they can respond accordingly.... |
| V-27102 | Medium | Applications providing IDS and prevention capabilities must prevent non-privileged users from circumventing intrusion detection and prevention capabilities. | Any application providing intrusion detection and prevention capabilities must be architected and implemented so as to prevent non-privileged users from circumventing such protections. This can be... |
| V-26940 | Medium | The application must support the employment of automated mechanisms supporting the auditing of enforcement actions. | Any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or application can potentially have significant effects on the overall security of the system.... |
| V-26947 | Medium | The organization must audit non-local maintenance and diagnostic sessions. | Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal... |
| V-26946 | Medium | The application must support the enforcement of a two-person rule for changes to organization-defined application components and system-level information. | Regarding access restrictions for changes made to organization defined information system components and system level information. Any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware... |
| V-26945 | Medium | The organization must employ automated mechanisms to restrict the use of maintenance tools to authorized personnel only. | The intent of this control is to address the security-related issues arising from the software brought into the information system specifically for diagnostic and repair actions (e.g., a software... |
| V-26944 | Medium | Applications scanning for malicious code must scan all media used for system maintenance prior to use. | There are security-related issues arising from software brought into the information system specifically for diagnostic and repair actions (e.g., a software packet sniffer installed on a system in... |
| V-26774 | Medium | Applications must provide the ability to enforce security policies regarding information on interconnected systems. | The application enforces approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy.
Information... |
| V-26949 | Medium | Applications must limit privileges to change the software resident within software libraries (including privileged programs). | When dealing with change control issues, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or application can potentially have... |
| V-26948 | Medium | Applications used for non-local maintenance sessions must protect those sessions through the use of a strong authenticator tightly bound to the user. | Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal... |
| V-26775 | Medium | Applications must uniquely identify source domains for information transfer. | The application enforces approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy.
Information... |
| V-26788 | Medium | Applications must enforce information flow using dynamic control based on policy that allows or disallows information flow based on changing conditions or operational considerations. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26907 | Medium | The application must use organization-defined replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. | An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message.
Techniques used to... |
| V-27073 | Medium | Applications must provide the capability to centralize the review and analysis of audit records from multiple components within the system. | Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a... |
| V-26776 | Medium | Applications must uniquely authenticate source domains for information transfer. | The information system enforces approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy.... |
| V-27029 | Medium | Applications must meet organizational requirements to implement security functions as a layered structure minimizing interactions between layers of the design and avoiding any dependence by lower layers on the functionality or correctness of higher layers. | The information system isolates security functions from non-security functions by means of an isolation boundary (implemented via partitions and domains) controlling access to and protecting the... |
| V-27027 | Medium | Applications must meet organizational requirements to implement an information system isolation boundary that minimizes the number of non-security functions included within the boundary containing security functions. | The information system isolates security functions from non-security functions by means of an isolation boundary (implemented via partitions and domains) controlling access to and protecting the... |
| V-26792 | Medium | Applications must enforce information flow control on metadata. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-27025 | Medium | Applications must isolate security functions from non-security functions by means of an isolation boundary (implemented via partitions and domains) controlling access to and protecting the integrity of, the hardware, software, and firmware that perform those security functions. The application must isolate security functions from non-security functions. | Security functions are defined as "the hardware, software, and/or firmware of the information system responsible for enforcing the system security policy and supporting the isolation of code and... |
| V-26782 | Medium | Applications providing information flow control must track problems associated with the binding of security attributes to data. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26820 | Medium | In support of information flow requirements, applications must track problems associated with information transfer. | When an application transfers data, there is the chance an error or problem with the data transfer may occur. Applications need to track failures and any problems encountered when performing data... |
| V-26821 | Medium | Applications must support organizational requirements to implement separation of duties through assigned information access authorizations. | Separation of duties is a prevalent Information Technology control that is implemented at different layers of the information system including the operating system and in applications. It serves... |
| V-27021 | Medium | Applications must be built to fail to a known safe state for defined types of failures. | Failure in a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization.
Failure in a known secure state helps prevent a loss of... |
| V-26786 | Medium | Applications must enforce information flow control using protected processing domains (e.g., domain type-enforcement) as a basis for flow control decisions. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26701 | Medium | The application must provide a mechanism to automatically terminate accounts designated as temporary or emergency accounts after an organization-defined time period. | Temporary application accounts could ostensibly be used in the event of a vendor support visit where a support representative requires a temporary unique account in order to perform diagnostic... |
| V-26703 | Medium | The application must be capable of automatically disabling accounts after a 35 day period of account inactivity. | Users are often the first line of defense within an application. Active users take notice of system and data conditions and are usually the first to notify systems administrators when they notice... |
| V-26705 | Medium | Applications must support the requirement to automatically audit account creation. | 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 create... |
| V-26790 | Medium | Applications must prevent encrypted data from bypassing content-checking mechanisms. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26706 | Medium | Applications must support the requirement to automatically audit account modification. | 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... |
| V-27180 | Medium | The application must provide additional data origin and integrity artifacts along with the authoritative data the system returns in response to name/address resolution queries. | This control enables remote clients to obtain origin authentication and integrity verification assurances for the host/service name to network address resolution information obtained through the... |
| V-27181 | Medium | Applications, when operating as part of a distributed, hierarchical namespace, must provide the means to indicate the security status of child subspaces and (if the child supports secure resolution services) enable verification of a chain of trust among parent and child domains. | This control enables remote clients to obtain origin authentication and integrity verification assurances for the host/service name to network address resolution information obtained through the... |
| V-27182 | Medium | The application must perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources when requested by client systems. | A recursive resolving or caching Domain Name System (DNS) server is an example of an information system providing name/address resolution service for local clients.
Authoritative DNS servers are... |
| V-26791 | Medium | Applications must enforce organization-defined limitations on the embedding of data types within other data types. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-27034 | Medium | Applications must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. | The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the actions of a prior user/role (or the actions of a process acting on... |
| V-27162 | Medium | The information system or supporting environment must block both inbound and outbound traffic between instant messaging clients that are independently configured by end users and external service providers. | Blocking restrictions do not include instant messaging services configured by an organization to perform an authorized function.
This requirement specifies blocking any external IRC chat clients... |
| V-26906 | Medium | The application must provide the capability to remotely view/hear all content related to an established user session in real time. | While a great deal of effort is made to secure applications so as to prevent unauthorized access, in certain instances there can be valid requirements to listen/hear or view all content related to... |
| V-26958 | Medium | Configuration management applications must employ automated mechanisms to centrally respond to unauthorized changes to configuration settings. | Configuration settings are the configurable security-related parameters of information technology products that are part of the information system.
Security-related parameters are those... |
| V-26855 | Medium | The application must enforce the organization-defined time period during which the limit of consecutive invalid access attempts by a user is counted. | Anytime an authentication method is exposed, so as to allow for the utilization of an application, there is a risk that attempts will be made to obtain unauthorized access.
To aid in defeating... |
| V-26871 | Medium | To support DoD requirements to centrally manage the content of audit records, applications must provide the ability to write specified audit record content to a centralized audit log repository. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes but is not... |
| V-27134 | Medium | Applications involved in the production, control, and distribution of asymmetric cryptographic keys must use must use approved PKI Class 3 certificates or prepositioned keying material. | Cryptographic key management and establishment can be performed using manual procedures or automated mechanisms with supporting manual procedures.
In addition to being required for the effective... |
| V-26911 | Medium | Applications managing network connections for devices must authenticate devices before establishing wireless network connections by using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based. | Device authentication is a solution enabling an organization to manage devices.
It is an additional layer of authentication ensuring only specific pre-authorized devices operated by specific... |
| V-26950 | Medium | The organization must protect non-local maintenance sessions by separating the maintenance session from other network sessions with the information system by either physically separated communications paths; or logically separated communications paths based upon encryption. | This is a requirement that maintenance needs to be done on a separate interface or encrypted channel to segment maintenance activity from regular usage.
This does not address an application... |
| V-26952 | Medium | Applications must automatically implement organization-defined safeguards and countermeasures if security functions (or mechanisms) are changed inappropriately. | Any changes to the application components of the information system can potentially have significant effects on the overall security of the system.
Accordingly, only qualified and authorized... |
| V-26953 | Medium | The application must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity and confidentiality of non-local maintenance and diagnostic communications. | Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal... |
| V-26954 | Medium | The application must employ strong identification and authentication techniques when establishing non-local maintenance and diagnostic sessions | Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal... |
| V-26955 | Medium | Configuration management applications must employ automated mechanisms to centrally manage configuration settings. | Configuration settings are the configurable security-related parameters of information technology products that are part of the information system.
Security-related parameters are those... |
| V-26956 | Medium | Configuration management applications must employ automated mechanisms to centrally apply configuration settings. | Configuration settings are the configurable security-related parameters of information technology products that are part of the information system.
Security-related parameters are those... |
| V-26957 | Medium | Configuration management applications must employ automated mechanisms to centrally verify configuration settings. | Configuration settings are the configurable security-related parameters of information technology products that are part of the information system.
Security-related parameters are those... |
| V-27135 | Medium | Applications must provide automated support for the management of distributed security testing. | The need to verify security functionality applies to all security functions.
For those security functions that are not able to execute automated self-tests the organization either implements... |
| V-26959 | Medium | Configuration management solutions must track unauthorized, security-relevant configuration changes. | Configuration settings are the configurable security-related parameters of information technology products that are part of the information system.
Security-related parameters are those... |
| V-27137 | Medium | Applications utilized for integrity verification must detect unauthorized changes to software and information. | Organizations are required to employ integrity verification applications on information systems to look for evidence of information tampering, errors, and omissions. The organization is also... |
| V-27136 | Medium | Applications involved in the production, control, and distribution of asymmetric cryptographic keys must use approved PKI Class 3 or class 4 certificates and hardware tokens that protect the users private key. | Cryptographic key management and establishment can be performed using manual procedures or automated mechanisms with supporting manual procedures.
In addition to being required for the effective... |
| V-27131 | Medium | Applications involved in the production, control, and distribution of symmetric cryptographic keys must use NIST-approved or NSA-approved key management technology and processes. | Cryptographic key management and establishment can be performed using manual procedures or automated mechanisms with supporting manual procedures.
In addition to being required for the effective... |
| V-27130 | Medium | The application must establish a trusted communications path between the user and organization-defined security functions within the information system. | The application user interface must provide an unspoofable and faithful communication channel between the user and any entity trusted to manipulate authorities on the user's behalf.
A trusted... |
| V-26905 | Medium | The application must provide the capability to capture, record, and log all content related to a user session. | While a great deal of effort is made to secure applications so as to prevent unauthorized access, in certain instances there can be valid requirements to capture, record, and log all content... |
| V-27132 | Medium | Applications involved in the production, control, and distribution of symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic keys must use NIST-approved or NSA-approved key management technology and processes. | Cryptographic key management and establishment can be performed using manual procedures or automated mechanisms with supporting manual procedures.
In addition to being required for the effective... |
| V-26819 | Medium | Applications providing information flow control must uniquely authenticate destination domains when transferring information. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26768 | Medium | Applications providing information flow controls must provide the capability for privileged administrators to configure security policy filters to support different organizational security policies. |
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26693 | Medium | Applications must not enable information system functionality providing the capability for automatic execution of code on mobile devices without user direction. | Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and communications devices with information storage capability (e.g.,... |
| V-27039 | Medium | Applications must restrict the ability of users to launch Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against other information systems or networks. | When it comes to DoS attacks most of the attention is paid to ensuring that systems and applications are not victims of these attacks.
While it is true that those accountable for systems want... |
| V-26811 | Medium | Applications must use security policy filters as a basis for making information flow control decisions. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26810 | Medium | The information system must enforce organization-defined one-way flows using hardware mechanisms. | This is a requirement to enforce information flow with a hardware device or mechanism. By definition, this is not related to software applications. This is expected to be addressed via... |
| V-27036 | Medium | Applications must protect against or limit the effects of the organization-defined or referenced types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. | A variety of technologies exist to limit, or in some cases, eliminate the effects of DoS attacks. For example, boundary protection devices can filter certain types of packets to protect devices on... |
| V-27037 | Medium | Applications must preserve any organization-defined system state information in the event of a system failure. | Failure in a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure in a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality,... |
| V-27030 | Medium | The application must protect the integrity of information during the processes of data aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission. | Information can be subjected to unauthorized changes (e.g., malicious and/or unintentional modification) at information aggregation or protocol transformation points. It is therefore imperative... |
| V-27031 | Medium | Applications required to be non-modifiable must support organizational requirements to provide components that contain no writeable storage capability. These components must be persistent across restart and/or power on/off. | Organizations may require applications or application components to be non-modifiable or to be stored and executed on non-writeable storage. Use of non-modifiable storage ensures the integrity of... |
| V-27032 | Medium | Applications must, for organization-defined information system components, load and execute the operating environment from hardware-enforced, read-only media. | Organizations may require the information system to load the operating environment from hardware enforced read-only media. The term operating environment is defined as the code upon which... |
| V-27033 | Medium | Applications must support organizationally-defined requirements to load and execute from hardware-enforced, read-only media. | Use of non-modifiable storage ensures the integrity of the software program from the point of creation of the read-only image. Organizations may require the information system to load specified... |
| V-26891 | Medium | Applications must validate the binding of the information producer’s identity to the information. | Non-repudiation protects individuals against later claims by an author of not having authored a particular document, a sender of not having transmitted a message, a receiver of not having received... |
| V-26890 | Medium | The application must associate the identity of the information producer with the information. | Non-repudiation supports audit requirements to provide the appropriate organizational officials the means to identify who produced specific information in the event of an information transfer.... |
| V-26893 | Medium | Applications must maintain reviewer/releaser identity and credentials within the established chain of custody for all information reviewed or released. | Non-repudiation protects individuals against later claims by an author of not having authored a particular document, a sender of not having transmitted a message, a receiver of not having received... |
| V-26892 | Medium | The application must provide a real-time alert when organization-defined audit failure events occur. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors, failures... |
| V-26692 | Medium | The application must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to organizational information systems. | Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and communications devices with information storage capability (e.g.,... |
| V-26894 | Medium | The application must validate the binding of the reviewer’s identity to the information at the transfer/release point prior to release/transfer from one security domain to another security domain. | This non-repudiation control enhancement is intended to mitigate the risk that information could be modified between review and transfer/release particularly when transfer is occurring between... |
| V-26896 | Medium | The application must provide the capability to compile audit records from multiple components within the system into a system-wide (logical or physical) audit trail that is time-correlated to within organization-defined level of tolerance. | Audit generation and audit records can be generated from various components within the information system. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated.... |
| V-26851 | Medium | The application must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the sources of the events. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes but is not... |
| V-26889 | Medium | Applications themselves, or the logging mechanism the application utilizes, must provide a warning when allocated audit record storage volume reaches an organization-defined percentage of maximum audit record storage capacity. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors, failures... |
| V-26904 | Medium | The application must initiate session auditing upon start up. | Session auditing activities are developed, integrated, and used in consultation with legal counsel in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, or regulations. |
| V-26886 | Medium | Applications must notify users of organization-defined security-related changes to the user’s account occurring during the organization-defined time period. | Some organizations may define certain security events as events requiring user notification. An organization may define an event such as a password change to a user's account occurring outside of... |
| V-30590 | Medium | The application must employ automated mechanisms to alert security personnel of inappropriate or unusual activities with security implications. | Applications will typically utilize logging mechanisms for maintaining a historical log of activity that occurs within the application. This information can then be used for diagnostic purposes,... |
| V-26887 | Medium | Applications must configure their auditing to reduce the likelihood of storage capacity being exceeded. | Applications need to be cognizant of potential audit log storage capacity issues. During the installation and/or configuration process, applications should detect and determine if adequate... |
| V-27035 | Medium | Applications must not share resources used to interface with systems operating at different security levels.
| The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the actions of a prior user/role (or the actions of a process acting on... |
| V-26978 | Medium | The application must use multifactor authentication for local access to non-privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has... |
| V-30589 | Medium | The application must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit tools. | Protecting the integrity of the tools used for auditing purposes is a critical step to ensuring the integrity of audit data. Audit data includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit... |
| V-26860 | Medium | The application must produce audit records that contain sufficient information to establish the outcome (success or failure) of the events. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes but is not... |
| V-27128 | Medium | The application must terminate the network connection associated with a communications session at the end of the session or after an organization-defined time period of inactivity. | This requirement applies to both internal and external networks.
Terminating network connections associated with communications sessions include, de-allocating associated TCP/IP address/port... |
| V-26969 | Medium | The application must support and must not impede organizational requirements to conduct backups of system-level information contained in the information system per organization-defined frequency. | Information system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability.
System-level information includes: system-state information, operating system and application... |
| V-26968 | Medium | The application must invoke a system shutdown in the event of an audit failure, unless an alternative audit capability exists. | It is critical when a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required; it takes action to mitigate the failure. If the system were to continue processing without auditing enabled,... |
| V-26965 | Medium | Applications must implement transaction recovery for systems that are transaction-based. | Application recovery and reconstitution constitutes executing an information system contingency plan that is comprised of activities that restore essential missions and business functions.... |
| V-26964 | Medium | The organization must employ automated mechanisms, per organization-defined frequency, to detect the addition of unauthorized components/devices into the information system. | Information deemed to be necessary by the organization to achieve effective property accountability can include: hardware inventory specifications (manufacturer, type, model, serial number,... |
| V-27120 | Medium | Applications must support organizational requirements to employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect information in storage. | When data is written to digital media such as, hard drives, mobile computers, external/removable hard drives, personal digital assistants, flash/thumb drives, etc., there is risk of data loss and... |
| V-27121 | Medium | Applications must provide notification of failed automated security tests. | The need to verify security functionality applies to all security functions.
For those security functions not able to execute automated self-tests the organization either implements compensating... |
| V-26961 | Medium | Applications must adhere to the principles of least functionality by providing only essential capabilities. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential... |
| V-26941 | Medium | Applications related to incident tracking must support organizational requirements to employ automated mechanisms to assist in the tracking of security incidents. | Incident tracking is a method of monitoring networks and systems for activity indicative of viral infection or system attack.
Monitoring for this type of activity provides the organization with... |
| V-26963 | Medium | To support the requirements and principles of least functionality, the application must support organizational requirements regarding the use of automated mechanisms preventing program execution on the information system in accordance with the organization-defined specifications. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential... |
| V-26962 | Medium | The application must support the organizational requirements to specifically prohibit or restrict the use of unauthorized functions, ports, protocols, and/or services. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential... |
| V-30575 | Medium | The application must notify appropriate individuals when accounts are created. | 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 create... |
| V-30574 | Medium | The information system must automatically terminate emergency accounts after an organization-defined time period for each type of account. | Emergency application accounts are typically created due to an unforeseen operational event or could ostensibly be used in the event of a vendor support visit where a support representative... |
| V-30576 | Medium | The application must notify appropriate individuals when accounts are modified. | 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... |
| V-30571 | Medium | Applications must enforce requirements regarding the connection of mobile devices to organizational information systems. | Applications designed to manage the connection of mobile devices to information systems must be able to enforce organizational connectivity requirements or work in conjunction with enterprise... |
| V-30570 | Medium | The application must enforce requirements for remote connections to the information system. | Applications that provide remote access to information systems must be able to enforce remote access policy requirements or work in conjunction with enterprise tools designed to enforce policy... |
| V-30573 | Medium | The organization must protect against unauthorized physical connections across the boundary protections implemented at an organization-defined list of managed interfaces. | This is a requirement to protect against physically by-passing the firewall interfaces by moving ethernet cables. This does not apply to applications. |
| V-30572 | Medium | The application must disable network access by unauthorized components/devices or notify designated organizational officials. | Maintaining system and network integrity requires all systems on the network are identified and accounted for. Without an accurate accounting of systems utilizing the network, the opportunity... |
| V-26864 | Medium | The application must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with the event. | Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes: time stamps,... |
| V-26916 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to prohibit password reuse for the organization-defined number of generations. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
To meet password policy requirements, passwords need... |
| V-27105 | Medium | The application must support taking organization-defined list of least-disruptive actions to terminate suspicious events. | System availability is a key tenet of system security. Organizations need to have the flexibility to be able to define the automated actions taken in response to an identified incident. This... |
| V-26769 | Medium | Applications providing flow control must identify data type, specification and usage when transferring information between different security domains so policy restrictions may be applied. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-27082 | Medium | Applications providing malicious code protection must support organizational requirements to update malicious code protection mechanisms (including signature definitions) whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures. | Malicious code protection mechanisms include, but are not limited to, anti-virus and malware detection software. In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization caused by... |
| V-27085 | Medium | The application must provide an audit reduction capability. | Audit reduction is used to reduce the volume of audit records in order to facilitate manual review. Before a security review information systems and/or applications with an audit reduction... |
| V-27084 | Medium | Applications scanning for malicious code must support organizational requirements to configure malicious code protection mechanisms to perform periodic scans of the information system on an organization-defined frequency. | Malicious code protection mechanisms include but are not limited to anti-virus and malware detection software. In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization that can be caused... |
| V-26888 | Medium | The application must protect against an individual falsely denying having performed a particular action. | Non-repudiation of actions taken is required in order to maintain application integrity. Examples of particular actions taken by individuals include creating information, sending a message,... |
| V-27086 | Medium | Applications providing malicious code protection must support organizational requirements to configure malicious code protection mechanisms to perform real-time scans of files from external sources as the files are downloaded, opened, or executed in accordance with organizational security policy. | Malicious code protection mechanisms include but are not limited to anti-virus and malware detection software. In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization that can be caused... |
| V-27089 | Medium | Applications must provide a report generation capability for audit reduction data. | In support of Audit Review, Analysis, and Reporting requirements, audit reduction is a technique used to reduce the volume of audit records in order to facilitate a manual review.
Before a... |
| V-27088 | Medium | Applications providing malicious code protection must support organizational requirements to address the receipt of false positives during malicious code detection, eradication efforts, and the resulting potential impact on the availability of the information system. | In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization that can be caused by malicious code, it is imperative that malicious code is identified and eradicated. Malicious code includes,... |
| V-26884 | Medium | The application must notify the user of the number of unsuccessful login/access attempts occurring during an organization-defined time period. | Users need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their application account. Providing users with information regarding the number of unsuccessful attempts made to login to their account... |
| V-27107 | Medium | The application must enforce organizational requirements to protect information obtained from intrusion monitoring tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion. | Intrusion monitoring applications are by their nature designed to monitor and record network and system traffic and activity. They can accumulate a significant amount of sensitive data, examples... |
| V-26767 | Medium | Applications providing information flow control must provide the capability for privileged administrators to enable/disable security policy filters. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26883 | Medium | In order to inform the user of the number of successful login attempts made with the users account, the application must notify the user of the number of successful logins/accesses occurring during an organization-defined time period. | Users need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their application account. Providing users with information regarding the number of successful attempts made to login to their account... |
| V-26881 | Medium | In order to inform the user of failed login attempts made with the users account, the application upon successful logon/access must display to the user the number of unsuccessful logon/access attempts since the last successful logon/access. | Users need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their application account. Providing users with information regarding the number of unsuccessful attempts made to login to their account... |
| V-30593 | Medium | Applications that utilize Discretionary Access Control (DAC) must enforce a policy that Includes or excludes access to the granularity of a single user. | DAC is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which mode (e.g., read or write).... |
| V-27055 | Medium | The information system must monitor and control communications at the external boundary of the information system and at key internal boundaries within the system. | Restricting external web traffic only to organizational web servers within managed interfaces and prohibiting external traffic that appears to be spoofing an internal address as the source are... |
| V-27177 | Medium | Applications designed to enforce policy pertaining to the use of mobile code must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in organization-defined software applications and require organization-defined actions prior to executing the code. | Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously.
Mobile code... |
| V-26919 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce password complexity by the number of lower case characters used. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password complexity is one factor of several that... |
| V-26913 | Medium | Web services applications establishing identities at run-time for previously unknown entities must dynamically manage identifiers, attributes, and associated access authorizations. | Web services are web applications providing a method of communication between two or more different electronic devices. They are normally used by applications to provide each other with data. ... |
| V-27040 | Medium | Applications must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. | In the case of application DoS attacks, care must be taken when designing the application so as to ensure that the application makes the best use of system resources. SQL queries have the... |
| V-27175 | Medium | Applications utilizing mobile code must meet policy requirements regarding the acquisition, development, and/or use of mobile code. | Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously.
Mobile code... |
| V-27016 | Medium | Applications must terminate user sessions upon user logout or any other organization or policy defined session termination events such as idle time limit exceeded. | This requirement focuses on communications protection at the application session, versus network packet level.
Session IDs are tokens generated by web applications to uniquely identify an... |
| V-27017 | Medium | Applications providing a login capability must also provide a logout functionality to allow the user to manually terminate the session. | Manually terminating an application session allows users to immediately depart the physical vicinity of the system they are logged into without the risk of subsequent system users reactivating or... |
| V-27014 | Medium | Applications that collectively provide name/address resolution service for an organization must implement internal/external role separation. | A Domain Name System (DNS) server is an example of an information system providing name/address resolution service. To eliminate single points of failure and to enhance redundancy, there are... |
| V-26979 | Medium | Applications authenticating users must ensure users are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator. | To assure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, application users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) must be individually identified and authenticated.
A group... |
| V-27012 | Medium | The application must perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on all resolution responses received whether or not local client systems explicitly request this service. | A recursive resolving or caching Domain Name System (DNS) server is an example of an information system providing name/address resolution service for local clients.
Authoritative DNS servers are... |
| V-27013 | Medium | The information systems that collectively provide name/address resolution service for an organization must be fault-tolerant. | A Domain Name System (DNS) server is an example of an information system providing name/address resolution service. To eliminate single points of failure and to enhance redundancy, there are... |
| V-27065 | Medium | The application must only generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing organization-defined sensitive or potentially harmful information in error logs and administrative messages that could be exploited. | Any application providing too much information in error logs and in administrative messages to the screen risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. The structure and... |
| V-27011 | Medium | The application must perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources when requested by client systems. | A recursive resolving or caching Domain Name System (DNS) server is an example of an information system providing name/address resolution service for local clients.
Authoritative DNS servers are... |
| V-26972 | Medium | The application must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). | To assure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users shall be identified and authenticated.
Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the... |
| V-26973 | Medium | The application must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has... |
| V-26879 | Medium | Applications upon successful logon, must display to the user the date and time of the last logon (access). | Users need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their application account. Providing users with information regarding the date and time of their last successful login allows the user to... |
| V-26971 | Medium | The application must support and must not impede organizational requirements to conduct backups of information system documentation including security-related documentation per organization-defined frequency. | Information system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability.
Information system and security related documentation contains information pertaining to system... |
| V-26976 | Medium | To support audit review, analysis and reporting the application must integrate audit review, analysis, and reporting processes to support organizational processes for investigation and response to suspicious activities. | Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a... |
| V-26977 | Medium | The application must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has... |
| V-26974 | Medium | The application must be capable of taking organization-defined actions upon audit failure (e.g., overwrite oldest audit records, stop generating audit records, cease processing, notify of audit failure). | It is critical when a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required; it detects and takes action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware... |
| V-27019 | Medium | Applications must recognize only system-generated session identifiers. | This requirement focuses on communications protection at the application session, versus network packet level. The intent of this control is to establish grounds for confidence at each end of a... |
| V-27087 | Medium | Applications providing malicious code protection must support organizational requirements to be configured to perform organization-defined action(s) in response to malicious code detection. | Malicious code protection mechanisms include but are not limited to anti-virus and malware detection software. In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization that can be caused... |
| V-27023 | Medium | Only a Honey Pot information system and/or application must include components that proactively seek to identify web-based malicious code. Honey Pot systems must be not be shared or used for any other purpose other than described. | A Honey Pot is an organization designated information system and/or application that includes components specifically designed to be the target of malicious attacks for the purpose of detecting,... |
| V-27159 | Medium | The application must protect the integrity and availability of publicly available information and applications. | The purpose of this control is to ensure organizations explicitly address the protection needs for public information and applications with such protection likely being implemented as part of... |
| V-26975 | Medium | The application must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has... |
| V-27155 | Medium | Applications must employ FIPS-validated or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or un-tested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-27154 | Medium | Applications must employ FIPS-validated cryptography to protect unclassified information when such information must be separated from individuals who have the necessary clearances yet lack the necessary access approvals. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-27153 | Medium | Applications must employ NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-27152 | Medium | The application must protect audit information from unauthorized modification. | If audit data were to become compromised then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is impossible to achieve.
To ensure the... |
| V-27150 | Medium | Applications must employ FIPS-validated cryptography to protect unclassified information. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data.
Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-26671 | Medium | Applications must ensure that users can directly initiate session lock mechanisms which prevent further access to the system. | A session lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not want to log out because of the... |
| V-26779 | Medium | The application must bind security attributes to information to facilitate information flow policy enforcement. | The application enforces approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy. Information flow... |
| V-26673 | Medium | The application must maintain and support the use of organization defined security attributes to stored information. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes are... |
| V-26672 | Medium | The application must have the ability to retain a session lock remaining in effect until the user re-authenticates using established identification and authentication procedures. | A session lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not want to log out because of the... |
| V-27139 | Medium | Applications that are utilized to address the issue of SPAM and provide protection from SPAM must automatically update any and all SPAM protection measures including signature definitions. | Originators of SPAM emails are constantly changing their source email addresses in order to defeat SPAM countermeasures; therefore, SPAM software must be constantly updated to address the changing... |
| V-26674 | Medium | The application must support and maintain the binding of organization defined security attributes to information in process. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes... |
| V-26677 | Medium | The application must provide the capability to specify administrative users and grant them the right to change application security attributes pertaining to application data. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
Security attributes... |
| V-26676 | Medium | The application must dynamically reconfigure security attributes in accordance with an identified security policy as information is created and combined. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes... |
| V-26770 | Medium | Applications, when transferring information between different security domains, must decompose information into policy-relevant subcomponents for submission to policy enforcement mechanisms. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26771 | Medium | Applications, when transferring information between different security domains, must implement or incorporate policy filters that constrain data object and structure attributes according to organizational security policy requirements. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-27094 | Medium | The organization must analyze outbound communications traffic at selected interior points within the system (e.g., subnets, subsystems), as deemed necessary, to discover anomalies. | Anomalies within the information system include, for example, large file transfers, long-time persistent connections, unusual protocols and ports in use, and attempted communications with... |
| V-26773 | Medium | Applications must provide the ability to prohibit the transfer of unsanctioned information in accordance with security policy. | The application enforces approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy.
Information... |
| V-27092 | Medium | For those instances where the organization requires encrypted traffic to be visible to information system monitoring tools, the application transmitting the encrypted traffic must make provisions to allow that traffic to be visible to specific system monitoring tools. | There is a recognized need to balance encrypting traffic versus the need to have insight into the traffic from a monitoring perspective.
For some organizations, the need to ensure the... |
| V-27093 | Medium | The organization must analyze outbound communications traffic at the external boundary of the system (i.e., system perimeter). | Anomalies within the information system include, for example, large file transfers, long-time persistent connections, unusual protocols and ports in use, and attempted communications with... |
| V-27090 | Medium | Intrusion detection software must be able to interconnect using standard protocols to create a system wide intrusion detection system. | When utilizing intrusion detection software, monitoring components are usually dispersed throughout the network, such as, when utilizing HIDS and multiple NIDS sensors. In order to leverage the... |
| V-26777 | Medium | Applications must uniquely identify destination domains for information transfer. | The application enforces approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy.
Information... |
| V-27171 | Medium | The application must validate the integrity of security attributes exchanged between systems. | When data is exchanged between information systems, the security attributes associated with said data needs to be maintained.
Security attributes are an abstraction representing the basic... |
| V-27178 | Medium | The application must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality. | Information system management functionality includes, functions necessary to administer databases, network components, workstations, or servers, and typically requires privileged user access.... |
| V-27095 | Medium | The organization must employ a wireless intrusion detection system to detect attack attempts to the information system.
| Wireless intrusion detection monitors wireless network traffic for known attack patterns and notifies IA staff members when possible attacks are detected.
This is a network monitoring traffic... |
| V-26882 | Medium | Applications must allocate audit record storage capacity. | In order to ensure applications have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, applications need to be able to allocate audit record storage capacity. The task of allocating... |
| V-27015 | Medium | Application must ensure authentication of both client and server during the entire session. An example of this is SSL Mutual Authentication.
| This control focuses on communications protection at the session, versus packet level.
At the application layer, session IDs are tokens generated by web applications to uniquely identify an... |
| V-27063 | Medium | The application must check the validity of data inputs. | Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an applications data entry fields and the application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unanticipated... |
| V-27062 | Medium | Applications must maintain the confidentiality of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission. When transmitting data, applications need to leverage transmission protection mechanisms such as TLS, SSL VPNs, or IPSEC. | Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism in order to protect the information during... |
| V-27061 | Medium | The application must employ cryptographic mechanisms preventing the unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission unless the transmitted data is otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. | Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism in order to protect the information during... |
| V-27060 | Medium | Applications must protect the confidentiality of transmitted information. | Ensuring the confidentiality of transmitted information requires that applications take feasible measures to employ security mechanisms during data transmission. Examples include but are not... |
| V-27067 | Medium | Applications must support the requirement to activate an alarm and/or automatically shut down the information system if an application component failure is detected. This can include conducting a graceful application shutdown to avoid losing information. | Predictable failure prevention requires organizational planning to address system failure issues. If components key to maintaining systems security fail to function, the system could continue... |
| V-27066 | Medium | The application must restrict error messages so only authorized personnel may view them. | If the application provides too much information in error logs and administrative messages to the screen, this could lead to compromise. The structure and content of error messages need to be... |
| V-26862 | Medium | The application must retain the notification message or banner on the screen until users take explicit actions to logon to or further access. | To establish acceptance of system usage policy, a click-through banner at application logon is required. The banner shall prevent further activity on the application unless and until the user... |
| V-27064 | Medium | The application must identify potentially security-relevant error conditions. | The structure and content of error messages need to be carefully considered by the organization and development team. The extent to which the application is able to identify and handle error... |
| V-26868 | Medium | Applications must include organization-defined additional, more detailed information in the audit records for audit events identified by type, location, or subject.
| Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes: time stamps,... |
| V-27069 | Medium | Applications serving to determine the state of information system components with regard to flaw remediation (patching) must use automated mechanisms to make that determination. The automation schedule must be determined on an organization-defined basis and any solution utilized must support the scheduling requirement. | Organizations are required to identify information systems containing software affected by recently announced software flaws (and potential vulnerabilities resulting from those flaws) and report... |
| V-27068 | Medium | Applications providing patch management capabilities must support the organizational requirements to install software updates automatically. | Security faults with software applications and operating systems are discovered daily. Vendors are constantly updating and patching their products to address newly discovered security... |
| V-27058 | Medium | Applications must employ cryptographic mechanisms to recognize changes to information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. | Ensuring the integrity of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism in order to recognize changes to information. This is... |
| V-27056 | Medium | The information system must connect to external networks or information systems only through managed interfaces consisting of boundary protection devices arranged in accordance with an organizational security architecture. | Managed interfaces employing boundary protection devices include: proxies, gateways, routers, firewalls, guards, or encrypted tunnels arranged in an effective security architecture (e.g., routers... |
| V-27144 | Medium | Applications that serve to protect organizations and individuals from SPAM messages must incorporate update mechanisms updating protection mechanisms and signature updates when new application releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures. | Senders of SPAM messages are continually modifying their tactics and source email addresses in order to elude protection mechanisms. To stay up-to-date with the changing threat and to identify... |
| V-29188 | Medium | Applications handling data requiring "data at rest" protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification of the information that is at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. | 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... |
| V-29189 | Medium | Applications must isolate security functions enforcing access and information flow control from both non-security functions and from other security functions. | Application functionality is typically broken down into modules that perform various tasks or roles. Examples of non-privileged application functionality include, but are not limited to,... |
| V-27148 | Medium | The application must protect audit information from any type of unauthorized access. | If audit data were to become compromised then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is difficult if not impossible to achieve. In... |
| V-26909 | Medium | Applications required to identify devices must uniquely identify and authenticate an organization-defined list of specific and/or types of devices before establishing a connection. | Device authentication is a solution enabling an organization to manage both users and devices. It is an additional layer of authentication ensuring only specific pre-authorized devices operated... |
| V-26908 | Medium | The application must use organization-defined replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to non-privileged accounts. | An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message.
Techniques used to... |
| V-30597 | Medium | The application must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code. | Decisions regarding the utilization of mobile code within organizational information systems needs to include evaluations which help determine the potential for the code to cause damage to the... |
| V-27117 | Medium | Applications must respond to security function anomalies in accordance with organization-defined responses and alternative action(s). | The need to verify security functionality applies to all security functions.
For those security functions not able to execute automated self-tests the organization either implements compensating... |
| V-27146 | Medium | Applications must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records. | Determining the correct time a particular event occurred on a system is critical when conducting forensic analysis and investigating system events.
Time stamps generated by the information... |
| V-27147 | Medium | The application must synchronize with internal information system clocks which in turn, are synchronized on an organization-defined frequency with an organization-defined authoritative time source. | Determining the correct time a particular application event occurred on a system is critical when conducting forensic analysis and investigating system events.
Synchronization of system clocks... |
| V-27140 | Medium | The application must implement required cryptographic protections using cryptographic modules complying with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data.
Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-30592 | Medium | Applications utilizing Discretionary Access Control (DAC) must enforce a policy that limits propagation of access rights. | Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the premise that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in... |
| V-26901 | Medium | The application must provide audit record generation capability for defined auditable events within defined application components. | Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., network interface, hard disk, modem etc.). From an application perspective, certain specific application... |
| V-26933 | Medium | The application must protect the audit records generated as a result of remote accesses to privileged accounts and the execution of privileged functions. | Protection of audit records and audit data is of critical importance. Care must be taken to ensure privileged users cannot circumvent audit protections put in place.
Auditing might not be... |
| V-27059 | Medium | The application must maintain the integrity of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission. | Ensuring the confidentiality of transmitted information requires that applications take feasible measures to employ transmission layer security. This requirement applies to communications across... |
| V-27024 | Medium | Applications must take needed steps to protect data at rest and ensure confidentiality and integrity of application data. | 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... |
| V-26752 | Medium | Applications providing information flow control must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system in accordance with applicable policy. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26981 | Medium | Applications using multifactor authentication when accessing non-privileged accounts via the network must provide one of the factors by a device separate from the information system gaining access.
| Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has... |
| V-27163 | Medium | The application must protect audit tools from unauthorized access. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data.
Depending upon the log format and application, system and application log tools may... |
| V-26666 | Medium | The application must support the requirement to initiate a session lock after an organization defined time period of system or application inactivity has transpired. | A session time-out lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not log out because of the... |
| V-26903 | Medium | Applications must generate audit records for the DoD selected list of auditable events. | Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated.
This set of events is... |
| V-26664 | Medium | The application must be able to define the maximum number of concurrent sessions for an application account globally, by account type, by account, or a combination thereof. | Application management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an application. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is helpful in... |
| V-26665 | Medium | The application must ensure that the screen display is obfuscated when an application session lock event occurs. | A session time-out lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not log out because of the... |
| V-26856 | Medium | Applications, when the maximum number of unsuccessful attempts are exceeded, must automatically lock the account/node for an organization-defined time period or lock the account/node until released by an administrator IAW organizational policy. | Anytime an authentication method is exposed so as to allow for the utilization of an application, there is a risk that attempts will be made to obtain unauthorized access.
To defeat these... |
| V-27141 | Medium | The organization must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at information system entry and exit points to detect and take action on unsolicited messages transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means. | Unsolicited email messages otherwise known as SPAM are known to be one of the primary vectors for the propagation of many types of attacks including phishing attacks. SPAM and malware protection... |
| V-30596 | Medium | The application must ensure the acquisition of mobile code to be deployed in information systems meets organization-defined mobile code requirements. | Decisions regarding the acquisition of mobile code within organizational information systems need to include evaluations that determine the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if... |
| V-27103 | Medium | Applications providing notifications regarding suspicious events must include the capability to notify an organization-defined list of response personnel who are identified by name and/or by role. | Incident response applications are by their nature designed to monitor, detect, and alarm on defined events occurring on the system or on the network. A large part of their functionality is... |
| V-27143 | Medium | The organization must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network to detect and take action on unsolicited messages transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, and web accesses.
| Senders of SPAM messages are continually modifying their tactics and source email addresses in order to elude protection mechanisms. To stay up-to-date with the changing threat and to identify... |
| V-26970 | Medium | The application must alert designated organizational officials in the event of an audit processing failure. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include; software/hardware errors, failures... |
| V-27070 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to employ automated patch management tools to facilitate flaw remediation to organization-defined information system components. Patch management tools must be automated. | The organization (including any contractor to the organization) shall promptly install security-relevant software updates (e.g., patches, service packs, and hot fixes). Flaws discovered during... |
| V-27071 | Medium | The application must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms, including signature definitions. Examples include anti-virus signatures and malware data files employed to identify and/or block malicious software from executing. | Anti-virus and malicious software detection applications utilize signature definitions in order to identify viruses and other malicious software. These signature definitions need to be constantly... |
| V-27072 | Medium | The application must prevent non-privileged users from circumventing malicious code protection capabilities. | Malicious code protection software must be protected so as to prevent a non-privileged user or malicious piece of software from disabling the protection mechanism. A common tactic of malware is to... |
| V-27118 | Medium | Applications employed to write data to portable digital media must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect and restrict access to information on portable digital media. | When data is written to portable digital media such as thumb drives, floppy diskettes, compact disks, magnetic tape, etc., there is risk of data loss.
An organizational assessment of risk guides... |
| V-27075 | Medium | Malicious code protection applications must update malicious code protection mechanisms only when directed by a privileged user. | Malicious code protection software must be protected to prevent a non-privileged user or malicious piece of software from manipulating the protection update mechanism.
Malicious code includes,... |
| V-27077 | Medium | Applications must support organizational requirements restricting users from introducing removable media into the information system. | Malicious code is known to propagate via removable media such as, floppy disks, USB or flash drives, and removable hard drives.
In order to prevent propagation and potential infection due to... |
| V-27078 | Medium | The organization must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at information system entry and exit points to detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means. | In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization that can be caused by malicious code, it is imperative that malicious code is identified and eradicated prior to entering... |
| V-27079 | Medium | The organization must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network to detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means. | In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization that can be caused by malicious code, it is imperative that malicious code is identified and eradicated. Malicious code includes... |
| V-26699 | Medium | Applications must provide automated mechanisms for supporting user account management. The automated mechanisms may reside within the application itself or may be offered by the operating system or other infrastructure providing automated account management capabilities. | A comprehensive application account management process that includes automation helps to ensure that accounts designated as requiring attention are consistently and promptly addressed. Examples... |
| V-26748 | Medium | Applications must enforce non-discretionary access control policies over users and resources where the policy rule set for each policy specifies:
access control information (i.e., attributes) employed by the policy rule set (e.g., position, nationality, age, project, time of day). | Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, access control matrices,... |
| V-26827 | Medium | Application users must utilize a separate, distinct administrative account when accessing application security functions or security-relevant information. Non-privileged accounts must be utilized when accessing non-administrative application functions. The application must provide this functionality itself or leverage an existing technology providing this capability. | This requirement is intended to limit exposure due to operating from within a privileged account or role. The inclusion of role is intended to address those situations where an access control... |
| V-26853 | Medium | Applications must have the capability to limit the number of failed login attempts based upon an organization defined number of consecutive invalid attempts occurring within an organization defined time period. | Anytime an authentication method is exposed so as to allow for the utilization of an application, there is a risk that attempts will be made to obtain unauthorized access.
To defeat these... |
| V-27179 | Medium | The application must prevent the presentation of information system management-related functionality at an interface utilized by general (i.e., non-privileged) users. | Information system management functionality includes, functions necessary to administer databases, network components, workstations, or servers, and typically requires privileged user access.... |
| V-26679 | Medium | The application must allow authorized users to associate security attributes with information. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes... |
| V-26750 | Medium | The application must enforce Discretionary Access Control (DAC) policy allowing users to specify and control sharing by named individuals, groups of individuals, or by both, limiting propagation of access rights and includes or excludes access to the granularity of a single user. | Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, access control matrices,... |
| V-26751 | Medium | The application must prevent access to organization-defined security-relevant information except during secure, non-operable system states. | Security-relevant information is any information within the information system that can potentially impact the operation of security functions in a manner possibly resulting in failure to enforce... |
| V-26918 | Medium | The application must support organizational requirements to enforce password complexity by the number of upper case characters used. | Password complexity or strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password complexity is one factor of several that... |
| V-27054 | Medium | Applications performing extrusion detection must be capable of denying network traffic and auditing internal users (or malicious code) posing a threat to external information systems. | Detecting internal actions that may pose a security threat to external information systems is sometimes termed extrusion detection. Extrusion detection at the information system boundary includes... |
| V-26754 | Medium | Applications providing information flow control must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-26755 | Medium | Applications providing information flow control must use explicit security attributes on information, source, and destination objects as a basis for flow control decisions. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and... |
| V-30584 | Medium | Applications utilizing mobile code must meet DoD-defined mobile code requirements. | Decisions regarding the deployment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously.
Mobile code... |
| V-27170 | Medium | The application must associate security attributes with information exchanged between information systems. | When data is exchanged between information systems, the security attributes associated with said data needs to be maintained.
Security attributes are an abstraction representing the basic... |
| V-27173 | Medium | Applications designed to address malware issues and/or enforce policy pertaining to organizational use of mobile code must implement detection and inspection mechanisms to identify unauthorized mobile code | Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously.
Mobile code... |
| V-27172 | Medium | Applications must support organizational requirements to issue public key certificates under an appropriate certificate policy or obtain public key certificates under an appropriate certificate policy from an approved service provider. | For user certificates, each organization attains certificates from an approved, shared service provider, as required by OMB policy.
For federal agencies operating a legacy public key... |
| V-26910 | Medium | Applications managing devices must authenticate devices before establishing remote network connections using bidirectional authentication between devices that are cryptographically based. | Device authentication is a solution enabling an organization to manage devices.
It is an additional layer of authentication ensuring only specific pre-authorized devices operated by specific... |
| V-27174 | Medium | Applications designed to address malware issues and/or enforce policy pertaining to organizational use of mobile code must take corrective actions, when unauthorized mobile code is identified. | Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously.
Mobile code... |
| V-30582 | Medium | The application must notify appropriate individuals when account disabling actions are taken. | When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes themselves.... |
| V-27176 | Medium | Applications designed to enforce policy pertaining to organizational use of mobile code must prevent the download and execution of prohibited mobile code. | Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously.
Mobile code... |
| V-26900 | Medium | The application must produce a system-wide (logical or physical) audit trail composed of audit records in a standardized format. | Audits records can be generated from various components within the information system. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is... |
| V-26980 | Medium | Applications using multifactor authentication when accessing privileged accounts via the network must provide one of the factors by a device that is separate from the information system gaining access. | Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has... |
| V-27020 | Medium | Applications must generate unique session identifiers with organization-defined randomness requirements. | This requirement focuses on communications protection at the application session, versus network packet level. The intent of this control is to establish grounds for confidence at each end of a... |
| V-26678 | Medium | The application must maintain the binding of security attributes to information with sufficient assurance that the information/attribute association can be used as the basis for automated policy actions. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information.
These attributes... |
| V-27018 | Medium | Applications must generate a unique session identifier for each session. | This requirement focuses on communications protection at the application session, versus network packet level. The intent of this control is to establish grounds for confidence at each end of a... |
| V-26865 | Medium | Applications must display an approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
| Applications must display an approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
The banner shall be formatted in accordance with the DoD policy "Use of DoD... |
| V-30583 | Medium | The application must notify appropriate individuals when accounts are terminated. | When application accounts are terminated, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes... |
| V-27169 | Medium | Software and/or firmware used for collaborative computing devices must prohibit remote activation excluding the organization-defined exceptions where remote activation is to be allowed. | Collaborative computing devices include, networked white boards, cameras, and microphones. Collaborative software examples include instant messaging or chat clients. |
| V-27127 | Medium | The organization (or information system) must enforce explicit rules governing the installation of software by users. | If provided the privilege, information system users have the ability to install software. This can create security related issues if the users install unapproved or insecurely written software.... |
