16.11: Lock Workstation Sessions After Inactivity

Automatically lock workstation sessions after a standard period of inactivity.

Asset Type

Security Function

Implementation Groups

Users

Protect

1, 2, 3

Dependencies

  • Sub-control 1.4: Maintain Detailed Asset Inventory

  • Sub-control 1.5: Maintain Asset Inventory Information

  • Sub-control 5.1: Establish Secure Configurations

Inputs

  1. List of workstations which have enabled automatic workstation locking

  2. List of workstations

  3. The workstation configuration policy establishing the organization’s workstation locking time threshold

Operations

  1. For each workstation with locking enabled, collect the locking time threshold

  2. Collect the list of workstations whose locking time threshold exceeds the value specified by Input 3

Measures

  • M1 = List of workstations

  • M2 = Count of M1

  • M3 = List of workstations having enabled automatic workstation locking

  • M4 = Count of M3

  • M5 = List of appropriately configured workstations

  • M6 = Count of M5

  • M7 = List of inappropriately configured workstations

  • M8 = Count of M7

Metrics

Misconfigured Workstations

Metric

What percentage of automatic locking enabled workstations are configured within
the locking time threshold?

Calculation

M6 / M2

Unconfigured Workstations

Metric

How many workstations do not have automatic locking enabled?

Calculation

M2 - M4