V-74215

Discussion

To ensure Solidcore clients are only configured to STIG and organization-specific settings, organization-specific ePO policies must be applied to all organization workstation endpoints. The McAfee Application Control installs with two Default Rules policies. The McAfee Default Rules policy includes the whitelist for commonly used applications to the platform. The McAfee Applications Default Rules policy include the whitelist for McAfee applications. Both of these policies are at the "My Organization" level of the System Tree and must be inherited by all branches of the System Tree. Organization-specific applications would be whitelisted with an organization-specific policy combined with the two Default policies into one effective policy.

Check Content

Obtain the organization's written policy for the McAfee Application Control software from the System or ePO Administrator.

From the ePO server console System Tree, select the "Systems" tab.

Select "This Group and All Subgroups".

Select the asset to be validated.

Select "Actions".

Select "Agent".

Select "Modify Policies on a Single System".

From the product pull-down list, select "Solidcore 7.x: Application Control".

For the "Application Control Rules (Windows)" Category, click on "Edit Assignments" under the "Actions" column.

Identify the organization-specific Rules policy applied to the system being reviewed.

Click on "Edit Policy" beside the organization-specific Rules policy.

Verify the list of applications under each of the "Rules Groups" in the organization-specific Rules policy against the written policy's list of allowed applications.

If the organization-specific Rules policy contains any applications not documented in the written policy as allowed, this is a finding.