SP13-00-000080 - SharePoint must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

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Information

Non-organizational 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).

Non-organizational 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, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation.

Solution

Configure SharePoint to uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

Navigate to Central Administration website.

Click on 'Manage web applications'.

Click the web application name.

Click the 'Authentication Providers' button in the 'Web Applications' ribbon.

Click each Zone, and clear the 'Enable anonymous access' check box.

Click 'Save'.

Repeat steps for each web application.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_SharePoint_2013_V2R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-2, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000804, Rule-ID|SV-223251r612235_rule, STIG-ID|SP13-00-000080, STIG-Legacy|SV-74393, STIG-Legacy|V-59963, Vuln-ID|V-223251

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: b78520cbaea81ea72170974ecaff416efe0734a807b86d49f77a19b67c664c63