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II - Mission Support Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000231-DB-000154

    Group
  • The Service Master Key must be backed up, stored offline and off-site.

    Backup and recovery of the Service Master Key may be critical to the complete recovery of the database. Not having this key can lead to loss of data during recovery.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000023-DB-000001

    Group
  • SQL Server authentication and identity management must be integrated 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
  • SRG-APP-000091-DB-000325

    Group
  • Where SQL Server Audit is in use, SQL Server must 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
  • SRG-APP-000109-DB-000321

    Group
  • Where availability is paramount, the SQL Server must continue processing (preferably overwriting existing records, oldest first), in the event of lack of space for more Audit/Trace log records; and must keep processing after any failure of an Audit/Trace.

    It is critical that when SQL Server 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; fai...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000133-DB-000362

    Group
  • The role(s)/group(s) used to modify database structure (including but not necessarily limited to tables, indexes, storage, etc.) and logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to SQL Server, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.

    If SQL Server were to allow any user to make changes to database structure or logic, then those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropriate testing and approvals that are part o...
    Rule Medium Severity

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