Details

Setting a hot corner to disable the screen saver poses a potential security risk since an unauthorized person could use this to bypass the login screen and gain access to the system.

Solution

Perform the following to implement the prescribed state:
Open System Preferences
Select Mission Control
Select Hot Corners
Remove any corners which are set to Disable Screen Saver

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/300

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AC-11a.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits