| V-65271 | High | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must protect against known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis (traffic thresholds). | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users.
Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-64979 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources by employing identity-based, role-based, and/or attribute-based security policies. | Successful authentication must not automatically give an entity access to an asset or security boundary. The lack of authorization-based access control could result in the immediate compromise and... |
| V-65267 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must conform to FICAM-issued profiles. | Without conforming to Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)-issued profiles, the information system may not be interoperable with FICAM-authentication protocols, such as SAML... |
| V-65223 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to non-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-65211 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must protect audit information from unauthorized read access. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-65263 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period. | If the cached authenticator information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.
This requirement applies to all ALGs which may cache user... |
| V-65301 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when denial of service incidents are detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The ALG... |
| V-65261 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must provide an immediate real-time alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO, of all audit failure events where the detection and/or prevention function is unable to write events to either local storage or the centralized server. | Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected.
Alerts provide organizations with... |
| V-65303 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when new active propagation of malware infecting
DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security
of DoD systems is detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The ALG... |
| V-65249 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must detect code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational databases may result... |
| V-65221 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts. | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Multifactor... |
| V-65265 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network. | Without configuring a local cache of revocation data, there is the potential to allow access to users who are no longer authorized (users with revoked certificates).
The intent of this... |
| V-65307 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization. | Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unanticipated... |
| V-65245 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from... |
| V-65309 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing encryption intermediary services must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to generate cryptographic hashes. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher... |
| V-65247 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from... |
| V-65241 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must have ICMP responses disabled on all interfaces facing untrusted networks. | Providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. Organizations carefully consider the structure/content of error messages.... |
| V-65269 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of protected sessions. | Non-DoD approved PKIs have not been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place which are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity... |
| V-65243 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from... |
| V-65209 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and SCA when an audit processing failure occurs. | 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-65229 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users). | Lack of authentication enables anyone to gain access to the network or possibly a network element that provides opportunity for intruders to compromise resources within the network infrastructure.... |
| V-65201 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must use encryption services that implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography 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-65203 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway that stores secret or private keys must use FIPS-approved key management technology and processes in the production and control of private/secret cryptographic keys. | Private key data is used to prove that the entity presenting a public key certificate is the certificate's rightful owner. Compromise of private key data allows an adversary to impersonate the key... |
| V-65205 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway that provides intermediary services for TLS must be configured to comply with the required TLS settings in NIST SP 800-52. | SP 800-52 provides guidance on using the most secure version and configuration of the TLS/SSL protocol. Using older unauthorized versions or incorrectly configuring protocol negotiation makes the... |
| V-65207 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to protect the integrity of remote access sessions. | Without cryptographic integrity protections, information can be altered by unauthorized users without detection.
Remote access is access to DoD-nonpublic information systems by an authorized user... |
| V-65281 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives when invalid inputs are received. | A common vulnerability of network elements is unpredictable behavior when invalid inputs are received. This requirement guards against adverse or unintended system behavior caused by invalid... |
| V-65285 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services.
Examples of network... |
| V-65287 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when unauthorized network services are detected. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore, may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services.
Automated mechanisms... |
| V-65289 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must continuously monitor inbound communications traffic crossing internal security boundaries for unusual or unauthorized activities or conditions. | If inbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored, hostile activity may not be detected and prevented. Output from application and traffic monitoring serves as input to continuous... |
| V-65275 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must protect against known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing signatures. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users.
Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-65219 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must restrict user authentication traffic to specific authentication server(s). | User authentication can be used as part of the policy filtering rule sets. Some URLs or network resources can be restricted to authenticated users only. Users are prompted by the application or... |
| V-65291 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must continuously monitor outbound communications traffic crossing internal security boundaries for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions. | If outbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored, hostile activity may not be detected and prevented. Output from application and traffic monitoring serves as input to continuous... |
| V-65253 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering as part of its intermediary services must detect code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational applications may... |
| V-65225 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway that provides intermediary services for TLS must validate certificates used for TLS functions by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation. | A certificate's certification path is the path from the end entity certificate to a trusted root certification authority (CA). Certification path validation is necessary for a relying party to... |
| V-65313 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing encryption intermediary services must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to implement encryption services. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher... |
| V-65217 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must be configured with a pre-established trust relationship and mechanisms with appropriate authorities (e.g., Active Directory or AAA server) which validate user account access authorizations and privileges. | User account and privilege validation must be centralized in order to prevent unauthorized access using changed or revoked privileges.
ALGs can implement functions such as traffic filtering,... |
| V-65311 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing encryption intermediary services must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for digital signatures. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher... |
| V-65215 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Organizational... |
| V-65199 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services for publicly accessible applications must display the Standard Mandatory DoD-approved Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system. | Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible network element ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with... |
| V-65213 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments. | In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types); organizations must... |
| V-65277 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing pattern recognition pre-processors. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users.
Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-65195 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must display the Standard Mandatory DoD-approved Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the network. | Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the network ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws,... |
| V-65279 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must only allow incoming communications from organization-defined authorized sources routed to organization-defined authorized destinations. | Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic which poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traffic may transit a network, which uses bandwidth... |
| V-65197 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must retain the Standard Mandatory DoD-approved Notice and Consent Banner on the screen until users acknowledge the usage conditions and take explicit actions to log on for further access. | The banner must be acknowledged by the user prior to allowing the user access to the network. This provides assurance that the user has seen the message and accepted the conditions for access. If... |
| V-65251 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational databases may result... |
| V-65191 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled so it does not introduce any... |
| V-65257 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must be configured to support centralized management and configuration. | Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to a... |
| V-65193 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must restrict or block harmful or suspicious communications traffic by controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks based on attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. Blocking or restricting detected harmful or suspicious... |
| V-65255 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must provide the capability for authorized users to select a user session to capture or view. | Without the capability to select a user session to capture or view, investigations into suspicious or harmful events would be hampered by the volume of information captured.
The intent of this... |
| V-65239 | Medium | In the event of a system failure of the DataPower Gateway function, the DataPower Gateway must save diagnostic information, log system messages, and load the most current security policies, rules, and signatures when restarted. | Failure in a secure state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to a secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or... |
| V-65317 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must not use 0.0.0.0 as a listening IP address for any service. | Using 0.0.0.0 as a listening address allows all interfaces to receive traffic for the service. This creates an unnecessary exposure when services are configured to listen on this address. |
| V-65235 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must invalidate session identifiers upon user logout or other session termination. | Captured sessions can be reused in "replay" attacks. This requirement limits the ability of adversaries from capturing and continuing to employ previously valid session IDs.
Session IDs are... |
| V-65237 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must recognize only system-generated session identifiers. | Network elements (depending on function) utilize sessions and session identifiers to control application behavior and user access. If an attacker can guess the session identifier, or can inject or... |
| V-65231 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must not have a front side handler configured facing an internal network. | DoS attacks can take multiple forms but have the common objective of overloading or blocking a network or host to deny or seriously degrade performance. If the network does not provide safeguards... |
| V-65233 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must protect the authenticity of communications sessions. | Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions.
This requirement focuses on communications... |
| V-65227 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing PKI-based user authentication intermediary services must map authenticated identities to the user account. | Authorization for access to any network element requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account must be... |
| V-65259 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must off-load audit records onto a centralized log server. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage... |
| V-65273 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway must implement load balancing to limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Load balancing provides service redundancy; which service redundancy reduces the... |
| V-65299 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when user level intrusions which provide non-privileged access are detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The ALG... |
| V-65297 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when root level intrusion events which provide unauthorized privileged access are detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The ALG... |
| V-65295 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., IAVMs or CTOs) are detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The ALG... |
| V-65293 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when detection events occur. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
Since these... |
| V-65305 | Medium | The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must provide the capability for authorized users to capture, record, and log all content related to a selected user session. | Without the capability to capture, record, and log content related to a user session, investigations into suspicious user activity would be hampered.
The intent of this requirement is to ensure... |
| V-65283 | Low | The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must be configured to integrate with a system-wide intrusion detection system. | Without coordinated reporting between separate devices, it is not possible to identify the true scale and possible target of an attack.
Integration of the ALG with a system-wide intrusion... |
| V-65315 | Low | The DataPower Gateway must off-load audit records onto a centralized log server in real time. | 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... |
