id: "MA-04(07)" title: "Disconnect Verification" family: "MA" family_name: "Maintenance" sort_id: "ma-04.07" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "system" parent: "MA-04" enhancement: True


Statement

Verify session and network connection termination after the completion of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.

Guidance

Verifying the termination of a connection once maintenance is completed ensures that connections established during nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions have been terminated and are no longer available for use.

Assessment Objective: session connection termination is verified after the completion of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions;

Assessment Objective: network connection termination is verified after the completion of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.

Maintenance policy

procedures addressing nonlocal system maintenance

system design documentation

system configuration settings and associated documentation

session/network termination logs

cryptographic mechanisms protecting nonlocal maintenance activities

maintenance records

diagnostic records

audit records

system security plan

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with system maintenance responsibilities

network engineers

organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

system/network administrators

Mechanisms implementing remote disconnect verifications of terminated nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions