Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• unencrypted static authenticators are not embedded in applications or other forms of static storage.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Identification and authentication policy
• system security plan
• procedures addressing authenticator management
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• logical access scripts
• application code reviews for detecting unencrypted static authenticators
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Personnel with authenticator management responsibilities
• personnel with information security responsibilities
• system/network administrators
• system developers

Test

• Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing authenticator management capabilities
• mechanisms implementing authentication in applications

Lingitud teemad

• NIST -

  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final