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MarkLogic Server v9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • MarkLogic Server must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.

    Enterprise environments make account management for applications and databases challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MarkLogic Server must be configured to provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components.

    Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit re...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MarkLogic Server must be able to generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to retrieve privileges/permissions occur.

    Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, it must be possible to configure auditing to do this. DBMSs typically mak...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MarkLogic Server must shut down by default upon audit failure, to include the unavailability of space for more audit log records; or must be configurable to shut down upon audit failure.

    It is critical that when the DBMS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it take action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors, failu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The audit information produced by MarkLogic Server must be protected from unauthorized read access.

    If audit data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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