Google Search Appliances providing remote access capabilities must utilize approved cryptography to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-60395	GSAP-00-000030	SV-74825r1_rule		Medium

Description
Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the Internet). Examples of remote access methods include dial-up, broadband, and wireless. Remote network access is accomplished by leveraging common communication protocols and establishing a remote connection. These connections will typically occur over either the public Internet or the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Since neither of these internetworking mechanisms are private nor secure, if cryptography is not used, then the session data traversing the remote connection could be intercepted and compromised. Cryptography provides a means to secure the remote connection so as to prevent unauthorized access to the data traversing the remote access connection thereby providing a degree of confidentiality. The encryption strength of mechanism is selected based on the security categorization of the information traversing the remote connection.

Description

Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the Internet). Examples of remote access methods include dial-up, broadband, and wireless. Remote network access is accomplished by leveraging common communication protocols and establishing a remote connection. These connections will typically occur over either the public Internet or the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Since neither of these internetworking mechanisms are private nor secure, if cryptography is not used, then the session data traversing the remote connection could be intercepted and compromised. Cryptography provides a means to secure the remote connection so as to prevent unauthorized access to the data traversing the remote access connection thereby providing a degree of confidentiality. The encryption strength of mechanism is selected based on the security categorization of the information traversing the remote connection.

STIG	Date
Google Search Appliance Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-07-07

Details

Check Text ( C-61359r2_chk )
Open the GSA Web Admin Console at https::8443. Log on to the GSA management interface. Click Administration >> Remote Support. If "Enable SSH for Remote Support" is unchecked, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-66053r3_fix)
Open the GSA Web Admin Console at https::8443. Login to the GSA management interface. Click Administration >> Remote Support. Uncheck the option "Enable SSH for Remote Support". Click Update.