| V-255286 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS must map the authenticated identity to the user account for PKI-based authentication. | Without mapping the certificate used to authenticate to the user account, the ability to determine the identity of the individual user or group will not be available for forensic analysis.
PKI... |
| V-255273 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to initialize its FIPS module to use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module. | Unapproved mechanisms used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be compromised. |
| V-255292 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS cimserver process must be properly configured to operate in FIPS mode in order to use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module. | Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be... |
| V-255291 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS CIMserver process must be configured to use approved encryption and communications protocols to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions. | Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session.
Remote access is access to DOD nonpublic information... |
| V-255296 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS WSAPI process must be properly configured to operate in FIPS mode in order to use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module. | Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be... |
| V-255295 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS WSAPI process must be configured to use approved encryption and communications protocols to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions. | Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session.
Remote access is access to DOD nonpublic information... |
| V-255272 | High | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to restrict the encryption algorithms and protocols to comply with DOD-approved encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of remote access sessions. | Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session.
Remote access is access to DOD nonpublic information... |
| V-255289 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS syslog-sec-client must be configured to perform mutual TLS authentication using a CA-signed client certificate. | Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient... |
| V-255288 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must provide automated mechanisms for supporting account management functions via AD. | Enterprise environments make account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other errors.
A comprehensive... |
| V-255285 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: To provision digital signatures, to generate cryptographic hashes, and to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The operating system must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher... |
| V-255284 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to offload audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage... |
| V-255287 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to only allow the use of DOD PKI-established certificate authorities for authentication in the establishment of protected sessions to the operating system. | Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient... |
| V-255281 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting local or remote access to the system. | Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal... |
| V-255280 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to enforce a minimum 15-character password length. | The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the... |
| V-255283 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). | If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis.
Time stamps generated by the operating system include date and... |
| V-255282 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR operating system must be configured to allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one week of audit records, even though all audit records are immediately sent to a centralized audit record storage system (SIEM). | To ensure operating systems have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, operating systems need to be able to allocate audit record storage capacity.
The task of... |
| V-255278 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured for centralized account management functions via LDAP. | Enterprise environments make account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other errors.
A comprehensive... |
| V-255279 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to have only one emergency account that can be accessed without LDAP and that has full administrator privileges. | While LDAP allows the storage system to support stronger authentication, and provides additional auditing, it also places a dependency on an external entity in the operational environment. The... |
| V-255270 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to disable nonessential web-services. | It is detrimental for operating systems to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often... |
| V-255271 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session, or after 10 minutes of inactivity. | 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-255298 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to disable nonessential Remote Copy services. | It is detrimental for operating systems to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often... |
| V-255299 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to only use DOD PKI established certificate authorities for authentication in the establishment of protected sessions to the operating system with a centralized account management server. | Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient... |
| V-255274 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent the unauthorized modification or disclosure of all information at rest on all operating system components. | Operating systems handling data requiring data-at-rest protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification of the information at rest.
Selection... |
| V-255275 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to send SNMP alerts to alert in the event of an audit processing failure. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an... |
| V-255276 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must provide an immediate real-time alert to the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO), at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an... |
| V-255277 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must, for networked systems, compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with a server that is synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers, or a time server designated for the appropriate DOD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS). | 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-255293 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to only use DOD PKI established certificate authorities for authentication in the establishment of protected sessions to the operating system with an External Key Manager. | Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient... |
| V-255290 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to disable nonessential Common Information Model services. | It is detrimental for operating systems to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often... |
| V-255297 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to perform mutual TLS authentication using a CA-signed client certificate when communicating with an External Key Manager. | Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient... |
| V-255294 | Medium | The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to disable nonessential VASA VVol services. | It is detrimental for operating systems to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often... |
