| V-76951 | High | The DBN-6300 must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational administrators (or processes acting on behalf of organizational administrators). | To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational administrators must be uniquely identified and authenticated for all network management accesses to prevent potential... |
| V-64975 | High | The DBN-6300 must provide automated support for account management functions. | If account management functions are not automatically enforced, an attacker could gain privileged access to a vital element of the network security architecture. |
| V-76975 | High | The DBN-6300 must terminate all network connections associated with a device management session at the end of the session, or the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements. | Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port... |
| V-77019 | High | The DBN-6300 must be configured to send log data to a syslog server for the purpose of forwarding alerts to the administrators and the ISSO. | Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to... |
| V-76955 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication is defined as using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) Something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) Something a user has (e.g.,... |
| V-76999 | Medium | Applications used for nonlocal maintenance sessions must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications. | This requires the use of secure protocols instead of their unsecured counterparts, such as SSH instead of telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and HTTPS instead of HTTP. If unsecured protocols (lacking... |
| V-76957 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. | A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be... |
| V-76953 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must use multifactor authentication for network access (remote and nonlocal) to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication. Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has (e.g.,... |
| V-76991 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must synchronize its internal system clock to the NTP server when the time difference is greater than one second. | Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular event occurred on a system is critical when... |
| V-76993 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). | If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis. |
| V-76959 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must enforce a minimum 15-character password length. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to... |
| V-76997 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must audit the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the device. | Without auditing the enforcement of access restrictions against changes to the device configuration, it will be difficult to identify attempted attacks, and an audit trail will not be available... |
| V-76973 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction. | Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals.
One method of minimizing this risk is to use complex passwords and... |
| V-76971 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime. | Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement.
Restricting this setting limits the user's ability... |
| V-76977 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must reveal error messages only to authorized individuals (ISSO, ISSM, and SA). | Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state. Additionally, sensitive account... |
| V-64989 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must automatically audit account removal actions. | Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account removal actions will... |
| V-76929 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate log records when successful attempts to access privileges occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-77017 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited. | Off-loading ensures audit information does not get overwritten if the limited audit storage capacity is reached and also protects the audit record in case the system/component being audited is... |
| V-77015 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records for all account creation, modification, disabling, and termination events. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-76985 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must audit the execution of privileged functions. | Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external entities that have compromised information system accounts, is a serious... |
| V-77013 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-77011 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for administrator access to the system. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-76981 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must automatically terminate a network administrator session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect. | Automatic session termination addresses the termination of administrator-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of network connections that are associated with communications... |
| V-64983 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must automatically audit account creation. | Upon gaining access to a network device, an attacker will often first attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is to create a new account. This... |
| V-64985 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must automatically audit account modification. | Upon gaining access to a network device, an attacker will often attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is to modify an account. This control... |
| V-64987 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must be compliant with at least one IETF Internet standard authentication protocol. | Protecting access authorization information (i.e., access control decisions) ensures that authorization information cannot be altered, spoofed, or otherwise compromised during transmission.
In... |
| V-76983 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must automatically audit account enabling actions. | Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to... |
| V-76947 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records. | In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, the network device must support the organization's capability to correlate the audit... |
| V-76995 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must record time stamps for audit records that meet a granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision. | Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records. Time stamps generated by the application include date and time.... |
| V-76969 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the DBN-6300 must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-76961 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
To meet password policy requirements, passwords need... |
| V-76963 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the DBN-6300 must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one upper-case character be used. | Use of a complex passwords helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-76965 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the DBN-6300 must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-76967 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the DBN-6300 must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-64997 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within the DBN-6300. | Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.
Audit... |
| V-64995 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit log events for a locally developed list of auditable events. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack; to recognize resource utilization or... |
| V-64991 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period. | By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.
It is possible to set a... |
| V-76979 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must activate a system alert message, send an alarm, and/or automatically shut down when a component failure is detected. | Predictable failure prevention requires organizational planning to address device failure issues. If components key to maintaining the device's security fail to function, the device could continue... |
| V-77001 | Medium | Applications used for nonlocal maintenance sessions must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications. | This requires the use of secure protocols instead of their unsecured counterparts, such as SSH instead of telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and HTTPS instead of HTTP. If unsecured protocols (lacking... |
| V-77005 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete administrator privileges occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-77007 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-77003 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify administrator privileges occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-77009 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-76989 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with an authoritative time server. | Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular event occurred on a system is critical when... |
| V-77023 | Medium | The DBN-6300 must obtain its public key certificates from an appropriate certificate policy through an approved service provider. | For user certificates, each organization obtains certificates from an approved, shared service provider, as required by OMB policy. For federal agencies operating a legacy public key... |
| V-77021 | Medium | Accounts for device management must be configured on the authentication server and not the network device itself, except for the account of last resort. | Centralized management of authentication settings increases the security of remote and nonlocal access methods. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat.
With... |
| V-76937 | Low | The DBN-6300 must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. | In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as device hardware components, device... |
| V-76935 | Low | The DBN-6300 must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-76933 | Low | The DBN-6300 must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-76931 | Low | The DBN-6300 must initiate session auditing upon startup. | If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is... |
| V-76939 | Low | The DBN-6300 must produce audit log records containing information to establish the source of events. | In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know the source of the event. The source may be a component, module, or... |
| V-76987 | Low | The DBN-6300 must provide the capability for organization-identified individuals or roles to change the auditing to be performed based on all selectable event criteria within near real time. | If authorized individuals do not have the ability to modify auditing parameters in response to a changing threat environment, the organization may not be able to effectively respond, and important... |
| V-76943 | Low | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individual or process associated with the event. | Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., administrators or processes acting on behalf of administrators) associated with the events, security personnel cannot... |
| V-76941 | Low | The DBN-6300 must produce audit records that contain information to establish the outcome of the event. | Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attack was successful or if changes were made to the security state of the... |
| V-76945 | Low | The DBN-6300 must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands. | Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.
Organizations consider limiting the additional audit information to only... |
| V-76949 | Low | The DBN-6300 must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited. | Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Regularly backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited... |
| V-76927 | Low | The DBN-6300 must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be generated and forwarded to the audit log. | Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured... |
| V-64993 | Low | The DBN-6300 must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation. | This requirement supports non-repudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required in order to maintain the integrity of the configuration management process. All configuration changes... |
