7.6 Automatic Actions for Optical Media

Information

Managing automatic actions, while useful in very few situations, is unlikely to increase security on the computer and does complicate the users experience and add additional complexity to the configuration. These settings are user controlled and can be changed without Administrator privileges unless controlled through MCX settings or Parental Controls. Unlike Windows Auto-run the optical media is accessed through Operating System applications, those same applications can open and access the media directly. If optical media is not allowed in the environment the optical media drive should be disabled in hardware and software

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

None

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/3092

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-3, CSCv7|8

Plugin: Unix

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