10.3: Disable Autorun and Autoplay for Removable Media

Disable autorun and autoplay auto-execute functionality for removable media.

Asset Type

Security Function

Implementation Groups

Devices

Protect

1, 2, 3

Dependencies

  • Safeguard 1.1: Establish and Maintain Detailed Enterprise Asset Inventory

  • Safeguard 4.1: Establish and Maintain a Secure Configuration Process

Inputs

  1. GV1: Enterprise asset inventory

  2. GV3: Configuration standards

Operations

  1. Use GV1 to identify and enumerate enterprise assets capable of performing autorun, autoplay, and auto-execute functions (M1)

  2. Check the configurations GV3 of each asset identified in Operation 1 to see if the autorun, autoplay, and auto-execute functions are disabled

    1. Identify and enumerate properly configured assets (M2)

    2. Identify and enumerate improperly configured assets (M3)

Measures

  • M1 = Count of assets capable of performing autorun, autoplay, and auto-excecute functions

  • M2 = Count of assets properly configured to disable functions

  • M3 = Count of assets not properly configured to disable functions

Metrics

Compliance