The operating system must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to organizational information systems.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000085

SV-65693r1_rule The operating system must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to organizational information systems.

Vulnerability discussion

Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and communications devices with information storage capability (e.g., notebook/laptop computers, personal digital assistants, cellular telephones, digital cameras, audio recording devices). Organization-controlled mobile devices include those devices for which the organization has the authority to specify and the ability to enforce specific security requirements.Usage restrictions and implementation guidance related to mobile devices include, configuration management, device identification and authentication, implementation of mandatory protective software (e.g., malicious code detection, firewall), scanning devices for malicious code, updating virus protection software, scanning for critical software updates and patches, conducting primary operating system (and possibly other resident software) integrity checks, and disabling unnecessary hardware (e.g., wireless, infrared).In order to detect unauthorized mobile device connections, organizations must first identify and document what mobile devices are authorized.

Check content

To check if there are any hardware components for Bluetooth loaded in the system, run the following command: sudo kextstat | grep -i bluetooth If there is a result, this is a finding.

Fix text

Removing the kernel extensions for Bluetooth will remove the system's ability to load Bluetooth devices, use the following commands to remove them: sudo rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext; sudo rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothHIDDDriver.kext; sudo reboot

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