V-241113

Discussion

When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual application users or for identifying the application processes themselves. In order to detect and respond to events affecting user accessibility and application processing, applications must audit account disabling actions and, as required, notify the appropriate individuals, so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that application accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address access requirements, many application developers choose to integrate their applications with enterprise-level authentication/access/audit mechanisms meeting or exceeding access control policy requirements. Such integration allows the application developer to off-load those access control functions and focus on core application features and functionality.

Check Content

Review the Trend Deep Security server configuration to ensure account disabling actions are automatically audited.

Verify "User Locked Out" events are enabled by reviewing the following:

Administration >> System Settings >> System Events >> Enable Event ID 603  User Locked Out.

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If "User Locked Out" is not enabled this is a finding.