If a data spill (Classified Message Incident (CMI)) occurs on a wireless email device or system at a site, the site must follow required data spill procedures.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-24957	WIR-SPP-003-02	SV-30694r1_rule	VIIR-1 VIIR-2	High

Description
If required procedures are not followed after a data spill, classified data could be exposed to unauthorized personnel.

STIG	Date
Wireless Management Server Policy Security Technical Implementation Guide	2012-09-21

Details

Check Text ( C-31115r1_chk )
Detailed Policy Requirements: This requirement applies to mobile operating system (OS) smartphones and tablets. This requirement also applies to sensitive DoD information stored on mobile OS devices that are not authorized to connect to DoD networks or store/process sensitive DoD information. Sensitive DoD data or information is defined as any data/information that has not been approved for public release by the site/Command Public Affairs Officer (PAO). If a data spill occurs on a smartphone, the following actions must be completed: - The smartphone management server and email servers (i.e., Exchange, Oracle mail, etc.) are handled as classified systems until they are sanitized according to appropriate procedures. (See NSA/CSS Storage Device Declassification Manual 9-12 for sanitization procedures.) - The smartphone is handled as a classified device and destroyed according to DoD guidance for destroying classified equipment or sanitized as directed in Check WIR-SPP-003-01. Check Procedures: Interview the IAO. Determine if the site has had a data spill within the previous 24 months. If yes, review written records, incident reports, and/or after action reports and determine if required procedures were followed. Mark as a finding if the site had a data spill within the previous 24 months and required procedures were not followed.

Check Text ( C-31115r1_chk )

Detailed Policy Requirements:
This requirement applies to mobile operating system (OS) smartphones and tablets.

This requirement also applies to sensitive DoD information stored on mobile OS devices that are not authorized to connect to DoD networks or store/process sensitive DoD information. Sensitive DoD data or information is defined as any data/information that has not been approved for public release by the site/Command Public Affairs Officer (PAO).

If a data spill occurs on a smartphone, the following actions must be completed:

- The smartphone management server and email servers (i.e., Exchange, Oracle mail, etc.) are handled as classified systems until they are sanitized according to appropriate procedures. (See NSA/CSS Storage Device Declassification Manual 9-12 for sanitization procedures.)

- The smartphone is handled as a classified device and destroyed according to DoD guidance for destroying classified equipment or sanitized as directed in Check WIR-SPP-003-01.

Check Procedures:
Interview the IAO. Determine if the site has had a data spill within the previous 24 months. If yes, review written records, incident reports, and/or after action reports and determine if required procedures were followed.

Mark as a finding if the site had a data spill within the previous 24 months and required procedures were not followed.

Fix Text (F-27583r1_fix)
If a data spill occurs on a wireless email device or system at a site, the site must follow required procedures.