The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-001200

SV-65609r1_rule The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.

Vulnerability discussion

This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers user information and system information. Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system.

Check content

To check if FileVault 2 is enabled, run the following command: sudo fdesetup status If FileVault is "OFF", this is a finding.

Fix text

Open System Preferences->Security and Privacy, and navigate to the FileVault tab. Use this panel to configure full-disk encryption.

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