V-281370

Discussion

To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors). Organizational users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) must be uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses, except the following. (i) Accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization. Organizations document specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication; and (ii) Accesses that occur through authorized use of group authenticators without individual authentication. Organizations may require unique identification of individuals in group accounts (e.g., shared privilege accounts) or for detailed accountability of individual activity.

Check Content

1. Using an account of appropriate privileges to access TCMax, go to Settings >> Options >> General tab.

2. Under "Login and User Options", verify the following are enabled:
- "Require someone to be logged in before you can perform an issue or turn-in".
- "Do not allow access to log search screen without logging in".
- "Restrict reports to those with permission only".
- "Hide user id field on all screens".

If any of these options are disabled, this is a finding.