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The application must conform to Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)-issued profiles.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>FICAM establishes a federated identity framework for the federal government. FICAM provides government-wide services for common Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) requirements. The FICAM Trust Framework Solutions (TFS) is the federated identity framework for the U.S. federal government. The TFS is a process by which Industry Trust Frameworks (The codification of requirements for credentials and their issuance, privacy and security requirements, as well as auditing qualifications and processes) are evaluated and assessed for potential use by the government. This requirement only applies to applications that are intended to be accessible to nonfederal government agencies and other partners or nonorganizational (non-DOD) users. Without conforming to FICAM-issued profiles, the information system may not be interoperable with FICAM-authentication protocols, such as SAML 2.0, OpenID 2.0 or other protocols such as the FICAM backend Attribute Exchange. This requirement addresses open identity management standards. More information regarding these standards is available here: info.idmanagement.gov/2012/10/what-are-ficam-technical-profiles-and.html</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-222560r1015709_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure the application to conform to FICAM-issued technical profiles when providing services that rely on external (federal government) identity providers.