Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-74505	DB2X-00-005600	SV-89179r1_rule		Medium

Description
Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Data used for the development and testing of applications often involves copying data from production. It is important that specific procedures exist for this process, to include the conditions under which such transfer may take place, where the copies may reside, and the rules for ensuring sensitive data are not exposed. Copies of sensitive data must not be misplaced or left in a temporary location without the proper controls.

Description

Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Data used for the development and testing of applications often involves copying data from production. It is important that specific procedures exist for this process, to include the conditions under which such transfer may take place, where the copies may reside, and the rules for ensuring sensitive data are not exposed. Copies of sensitive data must not be misplaced or left in a temporary location without the proper controls.

STIG	Date
IBM DB2 V10.5 LUW Security Technical Implementation Guide	2019-09-27

Details

Check Text ( C-74431r1_chk )
Verify there are proper procedures in place for the transfer of development/test data from production. Review any scripts or code that exists for the movement of production data to development/test and verify copies of production data are not left in unprotected locations. If there is no documented procedure for data movement from production to development/test, this is a finding. If data movement code that copies from production to development/test does exist and leaves any copies of production data in unprotected locations, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-74431r1_chk )

Verify there are proper procedures in place for the transfer of development/test data from production. Review any scripts or code that exists for the movement of production data to development/test and verify copies of production data are not left in unprotected locations.

If there is no documented procedure for data movement from production to development/test, this is a finding.

If data movement code that copies from production to development/test does exist and leaves any copies of production data in unprotected locations, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-81105r1_fix)
Create and document a process for moving data from production to development/test systems and follow the process. Modify any code used for moving data from production to development/test systems to ensure copies of production data are not left in unsecured locations.