V-288203

Discussion

When application accounts are modified, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual users or for identifying the application processes themselves. Sending notification of account modification events to the system administrator and ISSO is one method for mitigating this risk. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that application accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and also provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address access requirements, many operating systems can be integrated with enterprise-level authentication/access/auditing mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements.

Check Content

Review the application documentation and deployed configuration to determine whether the application's alerting mechanism notifies SAs and the ISSO when accounts are modified to include disabling and removal actions.

If the application's alerting mechanism does not notify SAs and the ISSO when accounts are modified to include disabling and removal actions, this is a finding.