V-255869

Discussion

Device authentication requires unique identification and authentication that may be defined by type, by specific device, or by a combination of type and device. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the identity of other devices for connections that are of greater risk. Device authentication is performed when the application server is providing web services capabilities and data protection requirements mandate the need to establish the identity of the connecting device before the connection is established. Because of the challenges of applying this requirement on a large scale, organizations are encouraged to only apply the requirement to those limited number (and type) of devices that truly need to support this capability. Note: with LDAP registry, the entire DN in the certificate is used to look up LDAP. Filters may be configured. With other registries, only the first attribute after the first "=", e.g., CN=<user> is used.

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Review System Security Plan documentation.

Identify mutual authentication connection requirements.

From the admin console, navigate to Security >> SSL Certificate and Key Management >> SSL Configuration.

Select each [NodeDefaultSSLSettings] then go to Quality of Protection (QoP) Settings.

If "Client authentication" is not set according to the security plan, this is a finding.

Note: with LDAP registry, the entire DN in the certificate is used to look up LDAP. Filters may be configured. With other registries, only the first attribute after the first "=", e.g., CN=<user> is used.