AC-14 - Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication

Control requirements

The organization:

AC-14 (a): Identifies [IBM Assignment: No access is permitted without identification or authentication] that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication consistent with organizational missions/business functions; and
AC-14 (b): Documents and provides supporting rationale in the security plan for the information system, user actions not requiring identification or authentication.

IBM Cloud for Financial Services profile

The rules related to this control that follow are part of the IBM Cloud for Financial Services v1.2.0 profile in IBM Cloud® Security and Compliance Center.

Rules for AC-14 in IBM Cloud for Financial Services v1.2.0 profile
Requirement ID	Rules
AC-14 (a)	Check that no public access is granted via the IAM public access group Check whether Cloud Object Storage public access is disabled in IAM settings (not applicable to ACLs managed using S3 APIs) Check whether App ID anonymous authentication is disabled

NIST supplemental guidance

This control addresses situations in which organizations determine that no identification or authentication is required in organizational information systems. Organizations may allow a limited number of user actions without identification or authentication including, for example, when individuals access public websites or other publicly accessible federal information systems, when individuals use mobile phones to receive calls, or when facsimiles are received. Organizations also identify actions that normally require identification or authentication but may under certain circumstances (e.g., emergencies), allow identification or authentication mechanisms to be bypassed. Such bypasses may occur, for example, via a software-readable physical switch that commands bypass of the logon functionality and is protected from accidental or unmonitored use. This control does not apply to situations where identification and authentication have already occurred and are not repeated, but rather to situations where identification and authentication have not yet occurred. Organizations may decide that there are no user actions that can be performed on organizational information systems without identification and authentication and thus, the values for assignment statements can be none.