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CRY-14Public Key Infrastructure-based Authentication

>Control Description

Information systems are configured to follow an established certification path to an accepted trust anchor; in the case of network failure, a local cache of revocation data is maintained to support validation.

Theme

Technology

Type

Preventive

Policy/Standard

Key Management Policy

>Implementation Guidance

1. Establish a process for executing periodic SSL tests to ensure that the identified Certificate authority is authorized to act as a trust anchor.

>Testing Procedure

1. Observe a sample of servers and domains and review their SSL test. 2. Observe the Certificate authority and ensure that it is an authorized to act as a trust anchor.

>Audit Artifacts

E-CRY-21

>Framework Mappings

Cross-framework mappings provided by Adobe CCF Open Source under Creative Commons License.

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