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MA-04(04) Authentication and Separation of Maintenance Sessions

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged MA part of MA-4

Title

Authentication and Separation of Maintenance Sessions

Control

Protect nonlocal maintenance sessions by:
(a) Employing [Assignment: authenticators that are replay resistant] ; and
(b) Separating the maintenance sessions from other network sessions with the system by either:
(1) Physically separated communications paths; or
(2) Logically separated communications paths.

Discussion

Communications paths can be logically separated using encryption.

Parameters

ma-04.04_odp: authenticators that are replay resistant

STIG rules that implement this control 1

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