The Google Search Appliance must notify appropriate individuals when accounts are terminated.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-60803	GSAP-00-001040	SV-75255r1_rule		Medium

Description
When application accounts are terminated, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes themselves. In order to detect and respond to events that affect user accessibility and application processing, applications must notify the appropriate individuals when an account is terminated so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that application accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address the multitude of policy based audit requirements, and to ease the burden of meeting these requirements, many application developers choose to integrate their applications with enterprise level authentication/access/audit mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements. Examples include but are not limited to Active Directory and LDAP. The application must automatically notify the appropriate individuals when accounts are terminated.

Description

When application accounts are terminated, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes themselves. In order to detect and respond to events that affect user accessibility and application processing, applications must notify the appropriate individuals when an account is terminated so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that application accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address the multitude of policy based audit requirements, and to ease the burden of meeting these requirements, many application developers choose to integrate their applications with enterprise level authentication/access/audit mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements. Examples include but are not limited to Active Directory and LDAP. The application must automatically notify the appropriate individuals when accounts are terminated.

STIG	Date
Google Search Appliance Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-07-07

Details

Check Text ( C-61727r1_chk )
Open the GSA Web Admin Console at https::8443. Login to the GSA management interface. Navigate to "Administration", select "System Settings". If "Enable Daily Status Email Messages" is checked and a valid administrator email address is entered, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-66485r1_fix)
Open the GSA Web Admin Console at https::8443. Login to the GSA management interface. Navigate to "Administration", select "System Settings". Select "Enable Daily Status Email Messages" and enter a valid administrator email address.