Samsung Android OS 14 with Knox 3.x COPE Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Samsung Android's Work profile must be configured to prevent users from adding personal email accounts to the work email app.
If the user is able to add a personal email account (POP3, IMAP, EAS) to the work email app, it could be used to forward sensitive DOD data to unauthorized recipients. Restricting email account add...Rule Medium Severity -
Samsung Android's Work profile must be configured to disable exceptions to the access control policy that prevent application processes and groups of application processes from accessing all data stored by other application processes and groups of application processes.
App data sharing gives apps the ability to access the data of other apps for enhanced user functionality. However, sharing also poses a significant risk that unauthorized users or apps will obtain ...Rule Medium Severity -
Samsung Android must be configured to enforce an application installation policy by specifying one or more authorized application repositories, including DOD-approved commercial app repository, management tool server, or mobile application store.
Forcing all applications to be installed from authorized application repositories can prevent unauthorized and malicious applications from being installed and executed on mobile devices. Allowing s...Rule Medium Severity -
Samsung Android must not accept the certificate when it cannot establish a connection to determine the validity of a certificate.
Certificate-based security controls depend on the ability of the system to verify the validity of a certificate. If the MOS were to accept an invalid certificate, it could take unauthorized actions...Rule Low Severity -
The Samsung Android device work profile must be configured to disable automatic completion of work space internet browser text input.
The autofill functionality in the web browser allows the user to complete a form that contains sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information (PII), without previous knowledge o...Rule Medium Severity -
The Samsung Android device must be configured to disable the use of third-party keyboards.
Many third-party keyboard applications are known to contain malware. SFR ID: FMT_SMF_EXT.1.1 #47Rule Low Severity -
The Samsung Android device must be configured to disable all data signaling over [assignment: list of externally accessible hardware ports (for example, USB)].
If a user is able to configure the security setting, the user could inadvertently or maliciously set it to a value that poses unacceptable risk to DOD information systems. An adversary could exploi...Rule Medium Severity -
Samsung Android must be configured to disable ad hoc wireless client-to-client connection capability.
Ad hoc wireless client-to-client connections allow mobile devices to communicate with each other directly, circumventing network security policies and making the traffic invisible. This could allow...Rule Medium Severity
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