USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement written risk assessment procedures documenting roles and responsibilities of mission staff, and periodic review for the Geo-Management Information System in accordance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Banks and Gaza document a risk assessment of the Geo-Management Information System in accordance with federal information processing standard 199 and National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-30, and categorize the system as low-, moderate-, or high-risk.
USAID/Office of Security implement procedures to conduct and document periodic risk assessments for the Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal to comply with the guidance of National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza prepare a written security assessment of the Geo-Management Information System in accordance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
Based on the results of the security assessment, we recommend that USAID/West Bank and Gaza document its plan of action and milestones for the Geo-Management Information System in accordance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/Office of Security update the Partner
Vetting System Nongovernmental Portal plan of action and milestones to include estimated completion dates for its established milestones.
Once the estimated completion dates are in the Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Portal's plan of action and milestones, we recommend that
USAID/Office of Security conduct periodic reviews and document updates of actions taken to address any security control weaknesses by the completion dates.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza obtain a certified authorization to operate the Geo-Management Information System from the Agency's Chief Information Security Officer in accordance with Automated Directives System 545.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement a security plan in accordance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publications 800-53 and 800-18 for the Geo-Management Information System.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement comprehensive contingency plan procedures in accordance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publications 800-53 and 800-34 for its information systems including the Geo-Management Information System.
Upon completion of the Geo-Management Information System contingency plan, we recommend that USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement procedures to test its plan annually and update the contingency plan as needed based on the results.
USAID/Office of Security review the Partner
Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal contingency plan and make corrections as necessary in accordance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/Office of Security complete its annual testing of the Partner Vetting System and the Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal, and update the contingency plans based on the results.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza coordinate with USAID/Office of Security to identify an alternate processing site for the Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal and incorporate the site into its contingency plan.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza include recovery of the information systems once normal operations return in its Geo-Management Information System contingency plan.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza modify the Geo-Management Information System to include a transaction recovery system, such as transaction rollback or transaction journaling, to assist in the recovery of the database in the event of a failure, as required by National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza modify its Geo-Management Information System access control procedures and include the topics required by National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement procedures defining and requiring periodic review of user accounts and roles, and deactivating invalid user accounts within the Geo-Management Information System, Partner Vetting System, and Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization
Portal as required by National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/Office of Security incorporate audit trails for creation of user accounts, last user log-ons, role modifications, and disabling of user accounts to the Partner Vetting System as required by National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53, and give USAID/West Bank and Gaza access to the audit trails.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza incorporate audit trails for creation of user accounts, last user log-ons, role modifications, and disabling of user accounts to the Geo-Management Information System as required by National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement procedures requiring written access requests for all authorized Partner Vetting System and Geo-Management Information System users.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza review and document the review results on roles assigned to Geo-Management Information System and Partner Vetting System administrators, and correct any separation of duties weaknesses noted, or document reasons for not correcting noted weaknesses.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza review and document the results of the review on users with system administrator rights and other privileged roles in the Partner Vetting System, and remove these roles as needed to enforce least privilege.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza document the acceptable number of user log-on attempts before a Geo-Management Information System user account is locked and incorporate this control into the Geo-Management Information System application.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza modify its Geo-Management Information System user notification to comply with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza define and document its session lock criteria for the Geo-Management Information System in management-approved procedures.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza modify the Geo-Management Information System to prevent the display of data once the system locks the session.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza provide training to the system administrators of the Partner Vetting System, Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal and Geo-Management Information
System on information system security and security requirements for federal information
systems.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement a comprehensive identification and authentication policy and procedures for the Geo-Management Information System to comply with the guidance of National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
Following the implementation of the identification and authentication policy and procedures for the Geo-Management Information
System, we recommend that USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement procedures to conduct periodic reviews and document the review results to comply with the guidance of National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication
800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza incorporate authenticator management controls in the Geo-Management Information System to enforce minimum password complexity, minimum number of changed characters when new passwords are created, encrypted representations of passwords for storage and transmission, password minimum and maximum lifetime restrictions, rules governing recycling of passwords, and the use of a temporary password for system log-ons with an
immediate change to a permanent password, in compliance with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/Office of Security incorporate authenticator management control in the Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal to enforce minimum password lifetime
parameters for user accounts to comply with National Institute for Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement controls in the Geo-Management Information System so the system does not retain user log-ons after it terminates a communication session.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza use a secure session for transmitting data from its implementing partners.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza, in coordination with USAID/Office of Security, implement necessary changes to the Partner Vetting System Nongovernmental Organization Portal to eliminate
restrictions on age limits in the birth date fields in the Partner Information Form and allowing changes made to be reflected in the form.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza review and document the frequency and level of certification required by the contracting officer's representatives and agreement officer's representatives in the Geo-
Management Information System.
USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement a policy to periodically validate contracting officer's representatives and agreement officer's representatives compliance with Geo-Management
Information System certification requirements.