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V-206585

Database Security Requirements Guide

CAT II

Title

The DBMS must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which mode (e.g., read or write). Ownership is usually acquired as a consequence of creating the object or via specified ownership assignment. DAC allows the owner to determine who will have access to objects they control. An example of DAC includes user-controlled table permissions. When d...

Fix Text (Documentation Requirement)

Implement the organization's DAC policy in the security configuration of the database and DBMS, and, if applicable, the security configuration of the application(s) using the database.

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