V-288296

Discussion

It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary functions or services are often overlooked and therefore, may remain unsecured. They increase the risk to the platform by providing additional attack vectors. Applications are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations (e.g., key missions, functions). Examples of nonessential functions include, but are not limited to, advertising software or browser plug-ins not related to requirements or providing a wide array of functionality not required for every mission, but cannot be disabled.

Check Content

This requirement can be used as a bucket to disable functions within an application deemed unnecessary for the DoW mission.

Review the application documentation and deployed configuration to determine whether the application is configured to disable nonessential functions.

If the application does not disable nonessential functions, this is a finding.