The system must display a publicly-viewable pattern during a graphical desktop environment session lock.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN000510-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000510-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000510-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Low

Description
To protect the on-screen content of a session, it must be replaced with a publicly-viewable pattern upon session lock (such as a blank screen). This requirement applies to graphical desktop environments provided by the system to locally attached displays and input devices, as well as, to graphical desktop environments provided to remote systems using remote access protocols. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - No Graphical desktop environment.

Description

To protect the on-screen content of a session, it must be replaced with a publicly-viewable pattern upon session lock (such as a blank screen). This requirement applies to graphical desktop environments provided by the system to locally attached displays and input devices, as well as, to graphical desktop environments provided to remote systems using remote access protocols. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - No Graphical desktop environment.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN000510-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN000510-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.