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Regular and timely reviews of audit records increases the likelihood of early discovery of suspicious activity. Discovery of suspicious behavior can in turn trigger protection responses to minimize or eliminate a negative impact from malicious activity. Use of unauthorized application to access the DBMS may indicate an attempt to bypass security controls.
NOTE: Nessus did not perform this check as it requires manual verification.
Solution
Document applications authorized to access the DBMS in the System Security Plan.
Develop, document and implement a process to review log and trace files or the results from any alternate methods used to support database access auditing to detect connections from unauthorized applications.
Include in this process a method to generate and provide evidence of monitoring.
This may include automated or manual processes acknowledged by the auditor or IAO.