id: os_fail_secure_state
title: "Shutdown if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fails"
discussion: |
  Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized access to system resources. Operating systems that fail suddenly and with no incorporated failure state planning may leave the system available but with a reduced security protection capability. Preserving operating system state information also facilitates system restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with less disruption to mission-essential processes. Abort refers to stopping a program or function before it has finished naturally. The term abort refers to both requested and unexpected terminations.
check: |
  The technology supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. The technology inherently meets this requirement.
fix: |
  The technology inherently meets this requirement. No fix is required.
references:
  cce:
    - CCE-84860-6
  cci:
    - CCI-001190
  800-53r4:
    - SC-24
  disa_stig:
    - AOSX-15-100015
  srg:
    - SRG-OS-000184-GPOS-00078
macOS:
  - "10.15"
tags:
  - fisma-high
  - STIG
  - inherent
mobileconfig: false
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