V-255337

Discussion

Nonorganizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Nonorganizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization when related to the use of anonymous access, such as accessing a web server. Accordingly, a risk assessment is used in determining the authentication needs of the organization. Scalability, practicality, and security are simultaneously considered in balancing the need to ensure ease of use for access to federal information and information systems with the need to protect and adequately mitigate risk to organizational operations, assets, individuals, and other organizations.

Check Content

Review documentation, Azure SQL Database settings, and authentication system settings to determine if nonorganizational users are individually identified and authenticated when logging onto the system. 

If accounts are determined to be shared, determine if individuals are first individually authenticated. Where an application connects to Azure SQL Database using a standard, shared account, ensure that it also captures the individual user identification and passes it to Azure SQL Database. 

If the documentation indicates that this is a public-facing, read-only (from the point of view of public users) database that does not require individual authentication, this is not a finding. 

If nonorganizational users are not uniquely identified and authenticated, this is a finding.