id: "AC-12(01)" title: "User-initiated Logouts" family: "AC" family_name: "Access Control" sort_id: "ac-12.01" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "system" parent: "AC-12" enhancement: True
Statement
Provide a logout capability for user-initiated communications sessions whenever authentication is used to gain access to {{ insert: param, ac-12.01_odp }}.
Guidance
Information resources to which users gain access via authentication include local workstations, databases, and password-protected websites or web-based services.
Assessment Objective
a logout capability is provided for user-initiated communications sessions whenever authentication is used to gain access to {{ insert: param, ac-12.01_odp }}.
Access control policy
procedures addressing session termination
user logout messages
system design documentation
system configuration settings and associated documentation
system audit records
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
System/network administrators
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
system developers
System session termination mechanisms
logout capabilities for user-initiated communications sessions