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Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • PostgreSQL must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.

    Authentication with a DoD-approved PKI certificate does not necessarily imply authorization to access PostgreSQL. To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities th...
    Rule High Severity
  • PostgreSQL must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in transmission.

    Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for PostgreSQL to make security-related access-control decisions. Security labels are abstractions representing the bas...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • PostgreSQL must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    Non-organizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which includes organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent statu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • PostgreSQL must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.

    To ensure sufficient storage capacity for the audit logs, PostgreSQL must be able to allocate audit record storage capacity. Although another requirement (SRG-APP-000515-DB-000318) mandates that au...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • PostgreSQL must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.

    Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which...
    Rule Medium Severity

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