The operating system must audit any use of privileged accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined security functions or security-relevant information, when accessing other system functions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-29063	SRG-OS-000020	SV-37054r1_rule		Medium

Description
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 policy such as Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is being implemented and where a change of role provides the same degree of assurance in the change of access authorizations for both the user and all processes acting on behalf of the user as would be provided by a change between a privileged and non-privileged account. To limit exposure and provide forensic history of activity when operating from within a privileged account or role, the operating system must support organizational requirements that users of information system accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined list of security functions or security-relevant information, use non-privileged accounts, or roles, when accessing other (non-security) system functions.

Description

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 policy such as Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is being implemented and where a change of role provides the same degree of assurance in the change of access authorizations for both the user and all processes acting on behalf of the user as would be provided by a change between a privileged and non-privileged account. To limit exposure and provide forensic history of activity when operating from within a privileged account or role, the operating system must support organizational requirements that users of information system accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined list of security functions or security-relevant information, use non-privileged accounts, or roles, when accessing other (non-security) system functions.

STIG	Date
Operating System Security Requirements Guide	2013-03-28

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