PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA).
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>A PKI implementation depends on the practices established by the Certificate Authority (CA) to ensure the implementation is secure. Without proper practices, the certificates issued by a CA have limited value in authentication functions.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-224993r569186_rule
- Severity
- High
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Map user accounts to PKI certificates using the appropriate User Principal Name (UPN) for the network. See PKE documentation for details.