The operating system must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

From General Purpose Operating System SRG

Associated with: CCI-001199

SV-71137r1_rule The operating system must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

Vulnerability discussion

Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and tape drive, when used for backups) within an operating system.This requirement addresses protection of user-generated data, as well as operating system-specific configuration data. Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate, in accordance with the security category and/or classification of the information.

Check content

Verify the operating system protects the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the operating system to protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

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