BaselineWatch
Desk
Your fleet and your work Fleetyour releases and the hardware they run onTriagewhat needs a decisionWatchlistthe products and platforms you runSaved searchesthe lists you come back to
This instance Sourceswhat is read, how often, under what termsDigestthe daily or weekly summary, and alerts
How it is drawn Appearancethe look and the colour schemeBrandingthe mark this instance wears
Owner sign-in

03.05.11 Authentication Feedback

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 (CUI; CMMC Level 2) OSCAL 1.1.0 against OSCAL 1.1.0
All changes in this version
unchanged 03.05 Identification and Authentication

Title

Authentication Feedback

Control

Obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process.

Discussion

Authentication feedback does not provide information that would allow unauthorized individuals to compromise authentication mechanisms. For example, for desktop or notebook systems with relatively large monitors, the threat may be significant (commonly referred to as shoulder surfing). For mobile devices with small displays, this threat may be less significant and is balanced against the increased likelihood of input errors due to small keyboards. Therefore, the means of obscuring authenticator feedback is selected accordingly. Obscuring feedback includes displaying asterisks when users type passwords into input devices or displaying feedback for a limited time before fully obscuring it.

Assessment objective

feedback of authentication information during the authentication process is obscured.