ComplianceNIST 800-53 control
NIST-SC-21 Secure Name/Address Resolution Service (Recursive or Caching Resolver)
- Framework
- NIST SP 800-53 rev5 (5.2.0)
- Family
- SC System and Communications Protection
- Control
- SC-21
- ATT&CK techniques mitigated
- 7
Control statement
Request and perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources.
Discussion
Each client of name resolution services either performs this validation on its own or has authenticated channels to trusted validation providers. Systems that provide name and address resolution services for local clients include recursive resolving or caching domain name system (DNS) servers. DNS client resolvers either perform validation of DNSSEC signatures, or clients use authenticated channels to recursive resolvers that perform such validations. Systems that use technologies other than the DNS to map between host and service names and network addresses provide some other means to enable clients to verify the authenticity and integrity of response data.
ATT&CK mappings (CTID)
• T1071 Application Layer Protocol
• T1071.001 Web Protocols
• T1071.002 File Transfer Protocols
• T1071.003 Mail Protocols
• T1071.004 DNS
• T1568 Dynamic Resolution
• T1568.002 Domain Generation Algorithms
Related
Mitigates · MITRE ATT&CK (7)
Related control · Compliance (2)
- NIST-SC-20 Secure Name/Address Resolution Service (Authoritative Source) NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-SC-22 Architecture and Provisioning for Name/Address Resolution Service NIST 800-53 control
Referenced by Compliance · has member (1)
- NIST-SC System and Communications Protection NIST 800-53 family
Referenced by Compliance · related control (3)
- NIST-SC-20 Secure Name/Address Resolution Service (Authoritative Source) NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-SC-22 Architecture and Provisioning for Name/Address Resolution Service NIST 800-53 control
- NIST-SC-7(4) External Telecommunications Services NIST 800-53 enhancement