O19C-00-000800 - Oracle Database must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.

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Enterprise environments make account management for applications and databases challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other error. Managing accounts for the same person in multiple places is inefficient and prone to problems with consistency and synchronization.

A comprehensive application account management process that includes automation helps to ensure that accounts designated as requiring attention are consistently and promptly addressed.

Examples include, but are not limited to, using automation to act on multiple accounts designated as inactive, suspended, or terminated, or by disabling accounts located in noncentralized account stores, such as multiple servers. Account management functions can also include assignment of group or role membership; identifying account type; specifying user access authorizations (i.e., privileges); account removal, update, or termination; and administrative alerts. The use of automated mechanisms can include, for example: using email or text messaging to notify account managers when users are terminated or transferred; using the information system to monitor account usage; and using automated telephone notification to report atypical system account usage.

Oracle Database must be configured to automatically use organization-level account management functions, and these functions must immediately enforce the organization's current account policy.

Automation may be comprised of differing technologies that when placed together contain an overall mechanism supporting an organization's automated account management requirements.

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

Solution

Integrate database management system (DBMS) security with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.

For each Oracle-managed account that is not documented and approved, either transfer it to management by the external mechanism, or document the need for it and obtain approval, as appropriate.

Utilize an Oracle feature/product, an OS feature, a third-party product, or custom code to automate as much account maintenance functionality as possible.

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Audit Name: DISA Oracle Database 19c STIG v1r1 Database

Plugin: OracleDB

Control ID: 3d6e48cc670d87deda40c459fb30372b438a60a59e4713542026f3b99fdfbd19

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O19C-00-000800 - Oracle Database must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.

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