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.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-65303	WSDP-AG-000118	SV-79793r1_rule		Medium

Description
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 generates an alert which notifies designated personnel of the Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) which require real-time alerts. These messages should include a severity level indicator or code as an indicator of the criticality of the incident. These indicators reflect the occurrence of a compromise or a potential compromise. Since these incidents require immediate action, these messages are assigned a critical or level 1 priority/severity, depending on the system's priority schema. CJCSM 6510.01B, "Cyber Incident Handling Program", lists nine Cyber Incident and Reportable Event Categories. DoD has determined that categories identified by CJCSM 6510.01B Major Indicators (category 1, 2, 4, or 7 detection events) will require an alert when an event is detected. Alerts may be transmitted, for example, telephonically, by electronic mail messages, or by text messaging. The ALG must either send the alert to a management console that is actively monitored by authorized personnel or use a messaging capability to send the alert directly to designated personnel.

Description

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 generates an alert which notifies designated personnel of the Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) which require real-time alerts. These messages should include a severity level indicator or code as an indicator of the criticality of the incident. These indicators reflect the occurrence of a compromise or a potential compromise. Since these incidents require immediate action, these messages are assigned a critical or level 1 priority/severity, depending on the system's priority schema. CJCSM 6510.01B, "Cyber Incident Handling Program", lists nine Cyber Incident and Reportable Event Categories. DoD has determined that categories identified by CJCSM 6510.01B Major Indicators (category 1, 2, 4, or 7 detection events) will require an alert when an event is detected. Alerts may be transmitted, for example, telephonically, by electronic mail messages, or by text messaging. The ALG must either send the alert to a management console that is actively monitored by authorized personnel or use a messaging capability to send the alert directly to designated personnel.

STIG	Date
IBM DataPower ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide	2016-01-21

Details

Check Text ( C-65931r1_chk )
From the WebGUI, expand the Services folder, expand the folder of the type of service used (such as MultiProtocol Gateway), and click on the Processing Policy menu item. In the Policy, double-click the AntiVirus action. This antivirus action must be configured to connect to organizationally approved scanning software that will generate an alert to the DataPower Gateway when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected. Verify that the DataPower Gateway is configured to, upon receipt of an alert from the scanning software, generate notification messages to an authorized SNMP server that will, at a minimum, send an alert to the ISSO and ISSM by using the following steps: In the DataPower WebGUI, navigate to Administration >> Access >> SNMP Settings. On the "Trap Event Subscriptions" tab, verify the inclusion of Event Subscriptions that indicate virus detection. On the "Trap and Notification Targets" tab, verify that an approved SNMP server is configured as a Log Target. If no SNMP server is configured as a Log Target, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-65931r1_chk )

From the WebGUI, expand the Services folder, expand the folder of the type of service used (such as MultiProtocol Gateway), and click on the Processing Policy menu item. In the Policy, double-click the AntiVirus action. This antivirus action must be configured to connect to organizationally approved scanning software that will generate an alert to the DataPower Gateway when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected.

Verify that the DataPower Gateway is configured to, upon receipt of an alert from the scanning software, generate notification messages to an authorized SNMP server that will, at a minimum, send an alert to the ISSO and ISSM by using the following steps:

In the DataPower WebGUI, navigate to Administration >> Access >> SNMP Settings. On the "Trap Event Subscriptions" tab, verify the inclusion of Event Subscriptions that indicate virus detection. On the "Trap and Notification Targets" tab, verify that an approved SNMP server is configured as a Log Target.

If no SNMP server is configured as a Log Target, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-71243r1_fix)
This antivirus action must be configured to connect to organizationally approved scanning software that will generate an alert to the DataPower Gateway when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected by taking the following steps: From the WebGUI, expand the Services folder, expand the folder of the type of service used (such as MultiProtocol Gateway), and click on the Processing Policy menu item. In the Policy, add an AntiVirus action. This antivirus action must be configured to connect to organizationally approved scanning software that will generate an alert to the DataPower Gateway when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected. In the DataPower WebGUI, navigate to Administration >> Access >> SNMP Settings. Configure the "Trap Event Subscriptions" tab to include Event Subscriptions that are judged to be associated with the detection of root level intrusion events which provide unauthorized privileged access. Configure the "Trap and Notification Targets" tab to include an approved SNMP server that generates alerts that will be forwarded, at a minimum, to the ISSO and ISSM.

Fix Text (F-71243r1_fix)

This antivirus action must be configured to connect to organizationally approved scanning software that will generate an alert to the DataPower Gateway when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected by taking the following steps:

From the WebGUI, expand the Services folder, expand the folder of the type of service used (such as MultiProtocol Gateway), and click on the Processing Policy menu item. In the Policy, add an AntiVirus action. This antivirus action must be configured to connect to organizationally approved scanning software that will generate an alert to the DataPower Gateway when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected.

In the DataPower WebGUI, navigate to Administration >> Access >> SNMP Settings. Configure the "Trap Event Subscriptions" tab to include Event Subscriptions that are judged to be associated with the detection of root level intrusion events which provide unauthorized privileged access. Configure the "Trap and Notification Targets" tab to include an approved SNMP server that generates alerts that will be forwarded, at a minimum, to the ISSO and ISSM.