id: "AC-18(04)" title: "Restrict Configurations by Users" family: "AC" family_name: "Access Control" sort_id: "ac-18.04" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "AC-18" enhancement: True


Statement

Identify and explicitly authorize users allowed to independently configure wireless networking capabilities.

Guidance

Organizational authorizations to allow selected users to configure wireless networking capabilities are enforced, in part, by the access enforcement mechanisms employed within organizational systems.

Assessment Objective: users allowed to independently configure wireless networking capabilities are identified;

Assessment Objective: users allowed to independently configure wireless networking capabilities are explicitly authorized.

Access control policy

procedures addressing wireless implementation and usage (including restrictions)

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

Mechanisms authorizing independent user configuration of wireless networking capabilities