WN16-DC-000290 - Domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA).

Information

A PKI implementation depends on the practices established by the Certificate Authority (CA) to ensure the implementation is secure. Without proper practices, the certificates issued by a CA have limited value in authentication functions. The use of multiple CAs from separate PKI implementations results in interoperability issues. If servers and clients do not have a common set of root CA certificates, they are not able to authenticate each other.

Solution

Obtain a server certificate for the domain controller issued by the DoD PKI or an approved ECA.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Windows_Server_2016_V2R9_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(2)(a), CAT|I, CCI|CCI-000185, Rule-ID|SV-224992r958448_rule, STIG-ID|WN16-DC-000290, STIG-Legacy|SV-88277, STIG-Legacy|V-73613, Vuln-ID|V-224992

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 94ece8d15c4a92a2949ccfe3ee73cc10605e994c192f90f54b46741d72dfeac8