In the event of a system failure, the VMM must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-207426	SRG-OS-000269-VMM-000950	SV-207426r379318_rule		Medium

Description
Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the VMM or a component of the system. Preserving VMM state information helps to facilitate VMM restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with less disruption of mission/business processes.

Description

Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the VMM or a component of the system. Preserving VMM state information helps to facilitate VMM restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with less disruption of mission/business processes.

STIG	Date
Virtual Machine Manager Security Requirements Guide	2023-09-12

Details

Check Text ( C-7683r365688_chk )
Verify the VMM preserves any information necessary, in the event of a system failure, to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-7683r365689_fix)
Configure the VMM to preserve any information necessary, in the event of a system failure, to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.