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Samsung Android 12 with Knox 3.x COPE Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Samsung Android must be configured to not allow passwords that include more than four repeating or sequential characters.

    Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute force attacks. Passwords that contain repeating or sequential characters are significantly easier t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Samsung Android must be configured to disable authentication mechanisms providing user access to protected data other than a Password Authentication Factor, including face recognition.

    The biometric factor can be used to authenticate the user in order to unlock the mobile device. Unapproved/evaluated biometric mechanisms could allow unauthorized users to have access to DoD sensit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Samsung Android must be configured to enable a screen-lock policy that will lock the display after a period of inactivity - Disable trust agents.

    The screen lock timeout must be set to a value that helps protect the device from unauthorized access. Having a too-long timeout would increase the window of opportunity for adversaries who gain ph...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Samsung Android must be configured to not allow backup of all applications' configuration data to locally connected systems.

    Data on mobile devices is protected by numerous mechanisms, including user authentication, access control, and cryptography. When the data is backed up to an external system (either locally connect...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Samsung Android must be configured to disallow configuration of the device's date and time.

    Determining the correct time a particular application event occurred on a system is critical when conducting forensic analysis and investigating system events. Periodically synchronizing internal...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Samsung Android's Work profile must be configured to not allow installation of applications with the following characteristics: - back up MD data to non-DoD cloud servers (including user and application access to cloud backup services);- transmit MD diagnostic data to non-DoD servers; - voice assistant application if available when MD is locked; - voice dialing application if available when MD is locked; - allows synchronization of data or applications between devices associated with user; and - allows unencrypted (or encrypted but not FIPS 140-2 validated) data sharing with other MDs or printers.

    Requiring all authorized applications to be in an application allowlist prevents the execution of any applications (e.g., unauthorized, malicious) that are not part of the allowlist. Failure to con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Samsung Android's Work profile must be configured to enable audit logging.

    Audit logs enable monitoring of security-relevant events and subsequent forensics when breaches occur. They help identify attacks so that breaches can either be prevented or limited in their scope....
    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
  • PP-MDF-990000

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  • Samsung Android must be enrolled as a COPE device.

    The Work profile is the designated application group for the COPE use case. SFR ID: FMT_MOF_EXT.1.2 #47
    Rule Medium Severity

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