V-73057

Severity: Medium

Generated

2019-05-20 15:48:11.984914

Status

Skipped

Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.

NIST 800-53

STIG # Description Result
SC-4 SC-4: Information In Shared Resources passed

Guidance

Applications, including PostgreSQLs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

Data used for the development and testing of applications often involves copying data from production. It is important that specific procedures exist for this process, to include the conditions under which such transfer may take place, where the copies may reside, and the rules for ensuring sensitive data are not exposed.

Copies of sensitive data must not be misplaced or left in a temporary location without the proper controls.

Check

Review the procedures for the refreshing of development/test data from production.

Review any scripts or code that exists for the movement of production data to development/test systems, or to any other location or for any other purpose.

Verify that copies of production data are not left in unprotected locations.

If the code that exists for data movement does not comply with the organization-defined data transfer policy and/or fails to remove any copies of production data from unprotected locations, this is a finding.

Fix

Modify any code used for moving data from production to development/test systems to comply with the organization-defined data transfer policy, and to ensure copies of production data are not left in unsecured locations.

Test Results

  Result
Operating System Detection skipped

Code

control "V-73057" do
  title "Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended
information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy."
  desc  "Applications, including PostgreSQLs, must prevent unauthorized and
unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

Data used for the development and testing of applications often involves copying
data from production. It is important that specific procedures exist for this
process, to include the conditions under which such transfer may take place, where
the copies may reside, and the rules for ensuring sensitive data are not exposed.

Copies of sensitive data must not be misplaced or left in a temporary location
without the proper controls."
  impact 0.5
  tag "severity": "medium"
  tag "gtitle": "SRG-APP-000243-DB-000128"
  tag "gid": "V-73057"
  tag "rid": "SV-87709r1_rule"
  tag "stig_id": "PGS9-00-011900"
  tag "cci": "CCI-001090"
  tag "nist": ["SC-4", "Rev_4"]
  tag "check": "Review the procedures for the refreshing of development/test data
from production.

Review any scripts or code that exists for the movement of production data to
development/test systems, or to any other location or for any other purpose.

Verify that copies of production data are not left in unprotected locations.

If the code that exists for data movement does not comply with the
organization-defined data transfer policy and/or fails to remove any copies of
production data from unprotected locations, this is a finding."

  tag "fix": "Modify any code used for moving data from production to
development/test systems to comply with the organization-defined data transfer
policy, and to ensure copies of production data are not left in unsecured locations."

  only_if { false }

end