SQL4-00-021800 - Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.

Information

The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the actions of a prior user/role (or the actions of a process acting on behalf of a prior user/role) from being available to any current user/role (or current process) that obtains access to a shared system resource (e.g., registers, main memory, secondary storage) after the resource has been released back to the information system. Control of information in shared resources is also referred to as object reuse.

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, so copies of sensitive data are not misplaced or left in a temporary location without the proper controls.

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Create and document a process for moving data from production to development/test systems and follow the process.

Modify any code used for moving data from production to development/test systems to ensure copies of production data are not left in unsecured locations.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_SQL_Server_2014_Y22M10_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-4, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001090, Rule-ID|SV-81879r1_rule, STIG-ID|SQL4-00-021800, Vuln-ID|V-67389

Plugin: MS_SQLDB

Control ID: 2fa8b1ca188eedfa1ccbeb6d65783a11813c4f7c0abe141ad2bc28055579d728