| V-34526 | High | The IDPS must allow authorized system administrators to associate security attributes with information. | System administrators of the IDPS can reconfigure the rules and redirect traffic. If an unauthorized user gains access and then modifies the configuration, this could adversely impact the... |
| V-34524 | High | The IDPS must allow only authorized administrators to change security attributes. | System administrators of the IDPS can reconfigure the rules and redirect traffic. If an unauthorized user gains access and then modifies the configuration, this could adversely impact the... |
| V-34633 | Medium | The IDPS must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication uses two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) something you know (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something you have (e.g., cryptographic... |
| V-34637 | Medium | The IDPS must support the organizational requirement to ensure individuals are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator. | To assure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) must be individually identified and authenticated. Sharing... |
| V-34638 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts where one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the IDPS being accessed. | Single factor authentication poses much unnecessary risk upon any information system as most single factor authentication methods use only a userid and password. Passwords are, in most cases,... |
| V-34739 | Medium | The IDPS must associate security attributes with information exchanged between information systems. | Security attributes are associated with internal structures within the IDPS application used to enable the implementation of access control and flow control policies or support other aspects of... |
| V-34738 | Medium | The IDPS must protect the integrity and availability of publicly available information and applications. | Public-facing servers enable access to information by clients outside of the enclave. These servers are subject to greater exposure to attacks. It is imperative that the integrity of the data is... |
| V-34735 | Medium | The IDPS must employ FIPS-validated cryptography to protect unclassified information. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms that are employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing... |
| V-34734 | Medium | The IDPS must employ cryptographic protections using cryptographic modules complying with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance. | The most common vulnerabilities with cryptographic modules are those associated with poor implementation. Using cryptographic modules complying with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders,... |
| V-34567 | Medium | The IDPS must protect sensor event logs from unauthorized deletion. | Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured system.... |
| V-34580 | Medium | The IDPS must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is... |
| V-34564 | Medium | The site must monitor the radio frequency spectrum for unauthorized WLAN devices. | Unauthorized WLAN devices threaten the network in a variety of ways. If an unauthorized access point is installed on the network, people may use it to access network resources, thus bypassing... |
| V-34500 | Medium | All encrypted traffic must be decrypted prior to passing through content inspection and filtering mechanisms. | Allowing traffic to bypass the security checkpoints, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, puts the network infrastructure and critical data at risk. Malicious traffic could enter the... |
| V-34501 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce organizationally defined limitations on the embedding of data types within other data types. | Information flow control policies and enforcement mechanisms are commonly employed by organizations to control the flow of information between designated sources and destinations (e.g., networks,... |
| V-34502 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce information flow control using organizationally defined security policy filters as a basis for flow control decisions. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled, so... |
| V-34504 | Medium | The network element must require users of information system accounts, or roles, with access to
organizationally defined security functions or security relevant information, use non-privileged
accounts or roles, when accessing non-security functions. | The concept of least privilege is also applied to information system processes, ensuring that the processes operate at privilege levels no higher than necessary to accomplish required... |
| V-34505 | Medium | The IDPS must provide the capability for a privileged administrator to configure organizationally defined security policy filters to support different security policies. | Each account should grant access to only those privileges the system administrator is authorized for. By not restricting system administrators to their proper privilege levels, access to... |
| V-34506 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to automatically disable the monitored device if any of the organizationally defined lists of security violations are detected. | Incident related information can be obtained from a variety of sources including network monitoring. To reduce or eliminate the risk to the network, the IDPS must be configured to disable the... |
| V-34507 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce the organizationally defined limit of consecutive invalid access attempts by a user during the organizationally defined time period. | One of the most prevalent ways an attacker tries to gain access to a system is by repeatedly trying to access an account and guessing a password. To reduce the risk of malicious access attempts... |
| V-34508 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce the organizationally defined time period during which the limit of consecutive invalid access attempts by a user is counted. | One of the most prevalent ways an attacker tries to gain access to a system is by repeatedly trying to access an account and guessing a password. To reduce the risk of malicious access attempts... |
| V-34509 | Medium | The IDPS must automatically lock out an account after the maximum number of unsuccessful login attempts are exceeded and remain locked for an organizationally defined time period or until released by an administrator. | The IDPS must delay the next login prompt using an organizationally defined delay algorithm when the maximum number of unsuccessful access attempts is exceeded. The system must automatically lock... |
| V-34563 | Medium | The IDPS must provide a centralized management console/server that consolidates sensor logs from the agents and sensors. | Sensors and agents monitor and analyze activity. The term sensor is typically used for the IDPS that monitor networks, including network-based, wireless, and network behavior analysis... |
| V-34647 | Medium | The network element must dynamically manage identifiers, attributes, and associated access authorizations. | This control addresses dynamic management of account identifiers. Identifiers identify an individual, group, role, or device. Common device identifiers include, for example, media access control... |
| V-34481 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to IDPS components in accordance with applicable policy. | Depending on the implementation, accounts used for administrator access to the IDPS components may be defined in the management console, sensor application, sensor operating system, or the network... |
| V-34482 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce dual authorization based on organizational policies and procedures for organizationally defined privileged commands. | Dual authorization mechanisms require two forms of approval to execute. An organization may determine certain commands or IDPS configuration changes require dual authorization before being... |
| V-34485 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected systems in accordance with applicable policy. | Information flow controls are mechanisms which regulates where information is allowed to travel between interconnected systems. This control applies to the flow of information between IDPS... |
| V-34484 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system and its components in accordance with applicable policy. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel. This control applies to the flow of information within individual IDPS components. Internal component communication, such... |
| V-34487 | Medium | The IDPS management console, management server, or data management console server must reside in the management network. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled so... |
| V-34640 | Medium | The IDPS must use organizationally defined replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. | All authentication credentials must be maintained on an authentication server. Messages between the authenticator and the IDPS validating user credentials must not be vulnerable to a replay attack... |
| V-34720 | Medium | The IDPS must monitor and control traffic at both the external and internal boundary interfaces. | Monitoring and controlling both inbound and outbound network traffic adds a layer of protection to the enclave. Unlike an IDS, an IPS can both detect and take action to prevent harmful traffic... |
| V-34488 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce information flow control using explicit security attributes on information, source, and destination objects as a basis for flow control decisions. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled, so... |
| V-34722 | Medium | The IDPS must protect the integrity of transmitted information. | The IDPS must employ cryptographic mechanisms to recognize changes to information during transmission unless the transmission is otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. If... |
| V-34723 | Medium | The IDPS must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of information while in transit, unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. | This control applies to communications across internal and external networks, unless the information is protected by a physical security solution (e.g., PDS or physical access control) while in... |
| V-34725 | Medium | The IDPS must protect the confidentiality of transmitted information. | If the organization is relying on a commercial service provider for transmission services as a commodity item rather than a fully dedicated service for both internal and external connectivity, it... |
| V-34726 | Medium | The IDPS must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission, unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. | If the organization is relying on a commercial service provider for transmission services as a commodity item rather than a fully dedicated service for both internal and external connectivity, it... |
| V-34538 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce requirements for the connection of mobile devices to organizational information systems. | This control requires access control for portable and mobile devices. Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and... |
| V-34535 | Medium | The network element must protect wireless access to the network using authentication. | The security boundary of a Wireless LAN (WLAN) extends from the client device to the network boundary where network access is controlled. This boundary represents the portion of the network most... |
| V-34534 | Medium | The network element must enforce requirements for remote connections to the network. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. Enabling access to the network from outside introduces security risks... |
| V-34537 | Medium | The IDPS must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to information systems. | This control requires access control for portable and mobile devices. Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and... |
| V-34536 | Medium | The network element must protect wireless access to the network using encryption. | The security boundary of a WLAN extends from the client device to the network boundary where network access is controlled. This boundary represents the portion of the network most vulnerable to... |
| V-34531 | Medium | The IDPS must monitor for unauthorized remote connections to specific information systems on an organizationally defined frequency. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. In many instances these connections traverse the Internet. Monitoring of... |
| V-34530 | Medium | The network element must route all remote access traffic through managed access control points. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. In many instances these connections traverse the Internet. Regardless of... |
| V-34533 | Medium | The IDPS must disable use of organizationally defined networking protocols (on the IDPS components) deemed nonsecure, except for explicitly identified components in support of specific operational requirements. | Some networking protocols that allow remote access may not meet the security requirements to protect data and components. The organization can either make a determination as to the relative... |
| V-34715 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce strict adherence to protocol format. | Crafted packets not conforming to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards can be used by attackers to exploit a host’s protocol stack to create a Denial of Service (DoS)... |
| V-34714 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent discovery of specific system components or devices comprising a managed interface. | Allowing neighbor discovery messages to reach external network nodes is dangerous as it provides an attacker a method of obtaining information about the network infrastructure that can be useful... |
| V-34716 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent access into the organizations internal networks except as explicitly permitted and controlled by employing boundary protection devices. | The enclave’s internal network contains the servers where mission critical data and applications reside. There should never be connection attempts made to these devices from any host outside of... |
| V-34710 | Medium | The IDPS must check inbound traffic to ensure the communications are coming from an authorized source and routed to an authorized destination. | Spoofing source addresses occurs when a malicious user outside the network has created packets with a source address belonging to the private address space of the target network. This is done in... |
| V-34655 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code. | The mobile code paradigm encompasses programs that can be executed on one or several hosts other than the one they originate from. Mobility of such programs implies some built-in capability for... |
| V-34656 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code. | Decisions regarding the use of mobile code within the IDPS are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously. Mobile code technologies include Java,... |
| V-34657 | Medium | The IDPS must support organizational requirements to disable the user identifiers after an organizationally defined time period of inactivity. | Inactive user accounts pose a risk to systems and applications. Owners of inactive accounts will not notice if unauthorized access to their user account has been obtained. Attackers that are able... |
| V-34498 | Medium | The IDPS must implement security policies for all traffic flows by using security zones at various protection levels as a basis for flow control decisions. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled so... |
| V-34499 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce dynamic traffic flow control based on policy that allows/disallows information flows based on changing threat conditions or operational environment. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled so... |
| V-34496 | Medium | The IDPS must uniquely identify destination domains for information transfer. | Identifying source and destination domain addresses for information flows within the network allows forensic reconstruction of events when required, and increases policy compliance by attributing... |
| V-34497 | Medium | The network element must uniquely authenticate destination domains for information transfer. | Identifying source and destination addresses for information flows within the network allows forensic reconstruction of events when required, and increases policy compliance by attributing policy... |
| V-34494 | Medium | The IDPS must uniquely identify source domains for information transfer. | Identifying source and destination addresses for information flows within the network allows forensic reconstruction of events when required, and increases policy compliance by attributing policy... |
| V-34495 | Medium | The network element must uniquely authenticate source domains for information transfer. | Identifying source and destination addresses for information flows within the network allows forensic reconstruction of events when required, and increases policy compliance by attributing policy... |
| V-34492 | Medium | The IDPS must provide the capability for a privileged administrator to configure the organizationally defined security policy filters to support different security policies. | The IDPS must be configured to restrict management access according to the privilege level the user has been granted. Authorization to configure security policies must require the highest... |
| V-34493 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce security policies regarding information on interconnected systems. | Transferring information between interconnected information systems of differing security policies introduces the risk of the transfers violating one or more policies. It is imperative for policy... |
| V-34491 | Medium | The IDPS must allow authorized administrators to enable/disable organizationally defined security policy filters. | Organizationally defined security policy filters include, dirty word filters, file type checking filters, structured data filters, unstructured data filters, metadata content filters, and hidden... |
| V-34528 | Medium | The network element must use approved cryptography to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. In many instances these connections traverse the Internet. Remote access... |
| V-34529 | Medium | The network element must be configured to use cryptography to protect the integrity of remote access sessions. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. In many instances these connections traverse the Internet. Remote access... |
| V-34670 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce minimum password length. | Authorization for access to any IDPS requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a... |
| V-34522 | Medium | The IDPS must support and maintain the binding of organizationally defined security attributes to information in process. | Security attribute assignments (e.g., metadata, classification, user access privileges, or affiliation) are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity.... |
| V-34523 | Medium | The IDPS must dynamically reconfigure security attributes in accordance with an identified security policy as information is created and combined. | Security attribute assignments are representations of the properties or characteristics of an entity. Thus, if a security policy is changed or data is created or changed, the system will... |
| V-34521 | Medium | The IDPS must support and maintain the binding of organizationally defined security attributes to information in storage. | Security attribute assignments (e.g., metadata, classification, subject categories, nationality, user access privileges, or affiliation) are abstractions representing the basic properties or... |
| V-34527 | Medium | The network element must employ automated mechanisms to facilitate the monitoring and control of remote access methods. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. In many instances these connections traverse the Internet. Monitoring of... |
| V-34525 | Medium | The IDPS must maintain the binding of security attributes to information with sufficient assurance that the information to attribute association can be used as the basis for automated policy actions. | Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information. These attributes are... |
| V-34702 | Medium | The IDPS must isolate security functions used to enforce access and information flow control from both non-security functions and from other security functions. | The IDPS must be designed and configured to isolate security functions enforcing access and information flow control. Isolation must separate processes that perform security functions from those... |
| V-34703 | Medium | The IDPS must implement an isolation boundary to minimize the number of non-security functions included within the boundary containing security functions. | The IDPS must be designed and configured to minimize the number of non-security functions included within the boundary containing security functions. An isolation boundary, implemented via... |
| V-34701 | Medium | The IDPS must isolate security functions from non-security functions. | The IDPS must be designed and configured to isolate security functions from non-security functions. An isolation boundary is implemented via partitions and domains. This boundary must provide... |
| V-34707 | Medium | The IDPS must restrict the ability of users to launch DoS attacks against other information systems or networks. | The IDPS must prevent users from using the IDPS components to launch a DoS attack. Use of mechanisms that throttle traffic and resources so that attackers cannot generate unlimited traffic via the... |
| V-34704 | Medium | The IDPS must implement security functions as a layered structure minimizing interactions between layers of the design and avoiding any dependence by lower layers on the functionality or correctness of higher layers. | The IDPS must be designed and configured to implement security functions as a layered structure. An isolation boundary, using separate partitions and domains, must be used to minimize interactions... |
| V-34705 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. | The purpose of this control is to prevent information produced by the actions of a prior user, role, or the actions of a process acting on behalf of a prior user or role from being available to... |
| V-34708 | Medium | The IDPS must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of DoS attacks. | Managing excess capacity ensures that sufficient capacity is available
to counter flooding attacks. Managing excess capacity may include establishing selected usage priorities, quotas, or... |
| V-34709 | Medium | The IDPS must limit the use of resources by priority. | Priority protection helps prevent a lower priority process from delaying or interfering with the information system servicing any higher-priority process. If priority protection is not... |
| V-34665 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent access to organizationally defined security-relevant information except during secure, non-operable system states. | Security relevant information is any information within the information system that can potentially impact the operation of security functions in a manner that could result in failure to enforce... |
| V-34664 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce information flow control on metadata. | Metadata is information about one or more pieces of data. This may include information about the data's purpose, creator, origin, or classification. Information flow control regulates where... |
| V-34625 | Medium | The IDPS must not have unnecessary services and capabilities enabled. | A compromised IDPS introduces risk to the entire network infrastructure, as well as data resources that are accessible via the network. The perimeter defense has no oversight or control of attacks... |
| V-34620 | Medium | The IDPS must employ FIPS-validated or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures. | Use of weak or untested certificates undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The most common vulnerabilities with cryptographic modules are those associated with poor... |
| V-34790 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce organizationally defined one-way traffic flows. | The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled, so it does not introduce any unacceptable risk to the network infrastructure or data. This control is applicable to IPS... |
| V-34792 | Medium | The IDPS must support and maintain the binding of organizationally defined security attributes to information in transmission. | Security attribute assignments are representations of the properties or characteristics of an entity. For the IDPS this most likely will apply to user access privileges and classification metadata... |
| V-34645 | Medium | The IDPS must authenticate devices before establishing network connections using bidirectional authentication between cryptographically based devices. | This requirement is for device to device authentication between IDPS components and other network devices. Without authentication, an unauthorized device may connect to the IDPS and intercept... |
| V-34573 | Medium | The IDPS must allow administrators to select which rule sets are to be applied at the sensor level. | All sensors of the IDPS must be configurable with the organizationally defined rules. This requirement does not require each sensor be configured with separate rule sets; however, this capability... |
| V-34776 | Medium | The IDPS must protect information obtained from network monitoring from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion. | Monitoring outbound traffic enables the network operator to detect an attack towards another network with the local enclave as the base. The intrusion detection device must be configured to ensure... |
| V-34775 | Medium | The IDPS must take an organizationally defined list of least-disruptive actions to terminate suspicious events. | Monitoring outbound traffic enables the network operator to detect an attack towards another network with the local enclave as the base. When a compromise, potential compromise, or breach has been... |
| V-34774 | Medium | The IDPS must notify an organizationally defined list of incident response personnel of suspicious events. | Monitoring outbound traffic enables the network operator to detect an attack towards another network with the local enclave as the base. When a compromise, potential compromise, or breach has been... |
| V-34773 | Medium | The IDPS must be installed in stealth mode without an IP address on the interface with data flow. | The IDPS must prevent non-privileged users from gaining access to the system in order to circumvent intrusion detection and prevention capabilities. Circumventing IDPS capabilities would require... |
| V-34772 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to alarm if unexpected protocols for network management enter the subnet. | The management network must detect all attacks on the management hosts. The management network has a range of traffic that is permitted. Some of the following traffic is allowed on the Management... |
| V-34678 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce password encryption for transmission. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34679 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce minimum password lifetime restrictions. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34677 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce password encryption for storage. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34675 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce password complexity by the number of special characters used. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34673 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce password complexity by the number of lower case characters used. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password complexity is one factor of several that... |
| V-34779 | Medium | The IDPS must analyze outbound communications traffic at selected interior points within the network as deemed necessary to discover anomalies. | IDPS sensors must be deployed at strategic locations within the network. At a minimum, they must be deployed within the DMZ and behind the firewall. It is important to not only monitor traffic... |
| V-34671 | Medium | The IDPS must prohibit password reuse for the organizationally defined number of generations. | Authorization for access to any IDPS requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a... |
| V-34771 | Medium | The IDPS must provide near real-time alerts when any of the organizationally defined list of compromise or potential compromise indicators occur. | When a compromise, potential compromise, or breach has been discovered by the intrusion detection system, it is critical the appropriate personnel are notified via an alert mechanism. Near... |
| V-34770 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to monitor inbound and outbound TCP and UDP packets, dropping traffic using prohibited port numbers. | Monitoring outbound traffic enables the network operator to detect an attack towards another network with the local enclave as the base. Monitoring outbound traffic can also detect abnormal... |
| V-34583 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to send an alert to designated personnel in the event the sensor log fails to function. | Sensor event logging is a key component of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-34713 | Medium | The IDPS must route all management traffic through a dedicated management interface. | Although the IDPS is not responsible for routing all network management traffic to the management network, it must route all outgoing communications through the OOBM interface. If management... |
| V-34486 | Medium | The IDPS must allow in-band management sessions from authorized IP addresses within the internal trusted network. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled, so... |
| V-34463 | Medium | The IDPS must automatically terminate temporary accounts after an organizationally defined time period for each type of account. | Temporary accounts are established as part of normal account activation procedures when there is a need for short-term accounts without the demand for immediacy in account activation. Temporary... |
| V-34788 | Medium | The IDPS must generate error messages providing information necessary for corrective actions without revealing organizationally defined sensitive or potentially harmful information in error logs and administrative messages that could be exploited. | The extent to which the IDPS is able to identify and handle error conditions is guided by organizational policy and operational requirements. However, these error messages must not reveal... |
| V-34782 | Medium | The IDPS must verify the correct operation of security functions, in accordance with organizationally defined conditions and frequency. | Security functional testing involves testing the system for conformance to the application's security function specifications, as well as, compliance with the underlying security model.
The need... |
| V-34783 | Medium | The IDPS must respond to security function anomalies in accordance with organizationally defined responses and alternative actions. | Verification of security functionality is necessary to ensure the system’s defenses are enabled. These anomalies are detected by running self-tests on each component in the IDPS. For those... |
| V-34780 | Medium | The IDPS must detect attack attempts to the wireless network. | DoD information could be compromised if wireless monitoring is not performed to identify unauthorized WLAN clients and access points connected to or attempting to connect to the network. A... |
| V-34781 | Medium | The IDPS must detect rogue wireless devices, attack attempts, and potential compromises or breaches to the wireless network. | DoD information could be compromised if wireless monitoring is not performed to identify unauthorized WLAN clients and access points connected to or attempting to connect to the network. A WIDS... |
| V-34786 | Medium | The IDPS must detect unauthorized changes to software and information. | Anomalous behavior and unauthorized changes must be detected before the IDPS is breached or no longer in service. Identifying the source and method used to make the unauthorized change will help... |
| V-34787 | Medium | The IDPS must identify and respond to potential security-relevant error conditions. | Error messages generated by various components and services of the network devices can indicate a possible security violation or breach. The IDPS implementation must detect and respond to error... |
| V-34784 | Medium | The IDPS must provide notification of failed automated security tests. | Upon detection of a failure of an automated security self-test, the network element must respond in accordance with organizationally defined responses and alternative actions. Without taking any... |
| V-34719 | Medium | The IDPS must monitor and enforce filtering of internal addresses posing a threat to external information systems. | Monitoring and filtering the outbound traffic adds a layer of protection to the enclave. Unlike an IDS, an IPS can both detect and take action to prevent harmful traffic from leaving the network.... |
| V-34764 | Medium | The IDPS must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms and rule definitions. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. It can be transported by electronic mail, mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means. Malicious... |
| V-34609 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce a two-person rule for changes to organizationally defined information system components and system-level information. | Changes to any software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be allowed... |
| V-34608 | Medium | The IDPS must prevent the installation of organizationally defined critical software programs not signed with an organizationally approved private key. | Changes to any software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Verifying the authenticity of the software prior to installation validates the... |
| V-34762 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to perform organizationally defined actions in response to malicious code detection. | Organizations may determine that in response to malicious code detection, different actions may be warranted for different situations. For example, the IDPS may send different alerts, block... |
| V-34763 | Medium | The IDPS must address the receipt of false positives during malicious code detection and eradication and the resulting potential impact on the availability of the system. | One of the top concerns of any IDPS solution is false positives. Incorrectly identifying valid access and traffic as an attack can result in constant network traffic disruptions, inappropriately... |
| V-34603 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to enable automated mechanisms to enforce access restrictions. | Changes to the hardware or software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be... |
| V-34601 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the system components. | Changes to the hardware or software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be... |
| V-34769 | Medium | The IDPS must monitor inbound and outbound communications for unusual or unauthorized activities or conditions. | IDPS sensors must be deployed at strategic locations within the network. At a minimum, they should be deployed within the DMZ and behind the firewall. Placing a sensor behind the firewall will... |
| V-34605 | Medium | The IDPS must produce sensor log records containing sufficient information to establish the source of the event. | Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured IDPS. If the... |
| V-34604 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to enable automated mechanisms to support auditing of the enforcement actions. | Changes to the hardware or software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals are allowed... |
| V-34618 | Medium | The IDPS must monitor for unauthorized wireless connections on an organizationally defined frequency. | The IDPS must monitor for unauthorized connections to the network through use of wireless IDS sensors. Wireless technologies include, for example, microwave, satellite, packet radio (UHF/VHF),... |
| V-34562 | Medium | The IDPS management console must be logically installed on the management network. | The central management console (sometimes known as the management server or the database server) provides a central location to store, view, analyze, and produce detailed reports on alerts. This... |
| V-34476 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to dynamically manage account privileges and associated access authorizations. | In contrast to conventional access control methods which use static information system accounts and predefined sets of account privileges, dynamic access control approaches (e.g., service-oriented... |
| V-34706 | Medium | The IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. | A DoS attack against the IDPS components can leave the network without vital intrusion detection and prevention services, leaving the network and devices open to attack. A variety of technologies... |
| V-34751 | Medium | The IDPS must implement signatures that detect specific attacks and protocols that should not be seen on the segments containing web servers. | In a regional Enterprise Enclave, different sets of sensors will see different traffic as a result of their location within the regional enclave. By establishing separate signature profiles for... |
| V-34753 | Medium | The IDPS must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures. | This requirement is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of system information at rest when it is located on a secondary storage device within the IDPS. It is imperative that... |
| V-34757 | Medium | The IDPS must employ malicious code protection mechanisms to detect and block malicious code at the network perimeter. | The organization must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at information system entry and exit points. This protection must detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic... |
| V-34613 | Medium | The IDPS must automatically implement organizationally defined safeguards and countermeasures if security functions or mechanisms are changed inappropriately. | Changes to any software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals are allowed administrative... |
| V-34597 | Medium | The IDPS must support the requirement to centrally manage the events from multiple sensor queues. | Centrally managing data captured by the various sensors provides for easier management of network events and is an effective facility for monitoring and the automatic generation of alert... |
| V-34616 | Medium | The IDPS must generate sensor log records for events determined by the organization to be relevant to the security of the network infrastructure. | Sensor alerts are stored on each sensor and then periodically transferred to a central management or logging server database. Centrally logging the sensor information provides a central location... |
| V-34614 | Medium | The IDPS must reject or delay network traffic generated above configurable traffic volume thresholds as defined by the organization. | If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the sensor events log, a critical resource needed for event analysis would be lost. One method of exploiting this vulnerability is for an attacker to... |
| V-34746 | Medium | The IDPS must generate a unique session identifier for each session. | Unique session IDs are the opposite of sequentially generated session IDs which can be easily guessed by an attacker. Unique session identifiers help to reduce predictability of said identifiers.... |
| V-34658 | Medium | The IDPS must protect the audit records of non-local accesses to privileged accounts and the execution of privileged functions. | Auditing may not be reliable when performed by the network element to which the user being audited has privileged access. The privileged user may inhibit auditing or modify audit records. This... |
| V-34615 | Medium | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to centrally manage configuration settings. | Uncoordinated or incorrect configuration changes to network components can potentially lead to network outages and possibly compromises. Centrally managing configuration changes for the IDPS can... |
| V-34683 | Medium | The IDPS must map the authenticated identity to the user account for PKI-based authentication. | 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-34682 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key for PKI-based authentication. | The principle factor of PKI implementation is the private key used to encrypt or digitally sign information. If the private key is discovered, an attacker can use the key to authenticate as an... |
| V-34681 | Medium | The IDPS must validate certificates used for PKI-based authentication by constructing a certification path with status information to an accepted trust anchor. | A trust anchor is an authoritative entity represented via a public key. Within a chain of trust, the top entity to be trusted is the ""root certificate"" or ""trust anchors"" such as a... |
| V-34680 | Medium | The IDPS must enforce maximum password lifetime restrictions. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34687 | Medium | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to assist in the tracking of security incidents. | Despite the investment in perimeter defense technologies, enclaves are still faced with detecting, analyzing, and remediating network breaches and exploits that have made it past the firewall. An... |
| V-34685 | Medium | The IDPS must use NIST-validated FIPS 140-2 cryptography to implement authentication encryption mechanisms. | Encryption is only as good as the encryption modules utilized. Unapproved cryptographic module algorithms cannot be verified, and cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity and... |
| V-34684 | Medium | The IDPS must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible use by unauthorized individuals. | To prevent the compromise of authentication information, such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback from the information system shall not provide any information that would... |
| V-34689 | Medium | The IDPS must use automated mechanisms to restrict the use of maintenance tools to authorized personnel only. | This requirement addresses security-related issues associated with maintenance
tools used specifically for diagnostic and repair actions on organizational information systems. Maintenance tools... |
| V-34688 | Medium | The IDPS must invoke a system shutdown in the event of a log failure, unless an alternative audit capability exists. | It is critical that when a network device is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, action is taken to mitigate the failure. If the device were to continue processing without... |
| V-34568 | Medium | The IDPS must protect the sensor event log information from unauthorized modification. | Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured system.... |
| V-34569 | Medium | The IDPS must protect sensor event log information from unauthorized read access. | Event logging is a key component of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-34778 | Medium | The IDPS must analyze outbound traffic at the external boundary of the network. | IDPS sensors must be deployed at strategic locations within the network. At a minimum, they should be deployed within the DMZ and behind the firewall. It is important to not only monitor traffic... |
| V-34624 | Medium | The IDPS must ensure detected unauthorized security-relevant configuration changes are tracked. | Uncoordinated or incorrect configuration changes to network components can potentially lead to network outages and compromises. Centrally managing configuration changes for the IDPS can ensure... |
| V-34627 | Medium | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to prevent program execution in accordance with organizationally defined specifications. | A compromised IDPS introduces risk to the entire network infrastructure as well as data resources accessible via the network. The perimeter defense has no oversight or control of attacks by... |
| V-34626 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of organizationally defined functions, ports, protocols, and/or services. | A compromised network element introduces risk to the entire network infrastructure as well as data resources that are accessible via the network. The perimeter defense has no oversight or control... |
| V-34621 | Medium | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to centrally verify configuration settings. | Uncoordinated or incorrect configuration changes to network components can potentially lead to network outages and possibly compromises. Centrally managing configuration changes for the IDPS can... |
| V-34623 | Medium | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to respond to unauthorized changes to organizationally defined configuration settings. | Uncoordinated or incorrect configuration changes to network components can potentially lead to network outages and compromises. Centrally managing configuration changes for the IDPS can ensure... |
| V-34628 | Medium | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to detect the addition of unauthorized components or devices. | This requirement addresses configuration management of the IDPS components as well as detection of unauthorized devices on the network. The IDPS must automatically detect the installation of... |
| V-34612 | Medium | The IDPS must limit privileges to change software resident within software libraries, including privileged programs. | Changes to any software components of the IDPS can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be allowed... |
| V-34748 | Medium | The IDPS must generate unique session identifiers with organizationally defined randomness requirements. | Unique session IDs are the opposite of sequentially generated session IDs which can be easily guessed by an attacker. Unique session identifiers help to reduce predictability of said identifiers.... |
| V-34747 | Medium | The IDPS must allow only system generated session identifiers. | Unique session IDs are the opposite of sequentially generated session IDs which can be easily guessed by an attacker. Unique session identifiers help to reduce predictability of said identifiers,... |
| V-34582 | Medium | The IDPS must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Depending upon the log format and application, system and application log tools may... |
| V-34745 | Medium | The IDPS must invalidate session identifiers upon user logout or other session termination. | Session IDs are tokens generated by web applications to uniquely identify an application user's session. Applications will make application decisions and execute business logic based on the... |
| V-34742 | Medium | The IDPS must implement detection and inspection mechanisms to identify unauthorized mobile code. | Mobile code are programs that can be executed on one or several hosts other than the one they originate from. These programs offer many benefits to the organization; however, decisions regarding... |
| V-34743 | Medium | The IDPS must take corrective action when unauthorized mobile code is identified. | Mobile code is a program that can be executed on one or several hosts other than the one they originate from. These programs offer many benefits to the organization; however, decisions regarding... |
| V-34586 | Medium | The IDPS must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit log information. | Without the use of mechanisms, such as a signed hash using asymmetric cryptography, the integrity of the collected audit data is not fully protected. There are two types of log files required for... |
| V-34728 | Medium | The IDPS must terminate the connection associated with a communications session at the end of the session or after an organizationally defined time period of inactivity. | Terminating network connections associated with communications sessions include, de-allocating associated TCP/IP address/port pairs at the operating system level, or de-allocating networking... |
| V-34759 | Medium | The IDPS must update malicious code protection mechanisms and rules definitions whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to read from and write to files and folders on a computer's hard drive. It... |
| V-34729 | Medium | The IDPS must establish a trusted communications path between the user and organizationally defined security functions within the information system. | The IDPS user interface must provide an unspoofable and faithful communication channel between the user and any entity trusted to manipulate authorities on the user's behalf. To safeguard critical... |
| V-34740 | Medium | The IDPS must validate the integrity of security attributes exchanged between information systems. | Security attributes are associated with internal structures within the IDPS used to enable the implementation of access control and flow control policies or support other aspects of the... |
| V-34766 | Medium | The IDPS must only update malicious code protection mechanisms when directed by a privileged user. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. It is critical the protection mechanisms used to detect and contain this code are not tampered with by unauthorized users and... |
| V-34691 | Medium | The IDPS must protect non-local maintenance sessions through the use of multifactor authentication which is tightly bound to the user. | The IDPS must protect non-local maintenance sessions through the use of a strong authenticator which is tightly bound to the user. Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those... |
| V-34644 | Medium | The IDPS must authenticate devices before establishing wireless network connections using bidirectional authentication between cryptographically based devices. | This requirement is for device to device authentication between wireless network devices and the IDPS components. Without authentication, an unauthorized device may connect to the IDPS and... |
| V-34697 | Medium | The IDPS must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect information in storage. | When data is written to digital media, there is the risk of loss of data along with integrity and data confidentiality. An organizational assessment of risk guides the selection of media and... |
| V-34698 | Medium | The IDPS must be configured to detect the presence of unauthorized software on organizational information systems. | The IDPS monitors the network for known vulnerabilities and malicious software, such as Trojan horses, hacker tools, DDoS agents, and spyware. Many of these vulnerabilities may not be detected by... |
| V-34632 | Low | The network element must enforce the identification and authentication of all organizational users. | Network access control mechanisms interoperate to prevent unauthorized access and to enforce the organization’s security policy. Access to the network must be categorized as administrator, user,... |
| V-34630 | Low | The IDPS must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of system level information contained in the information system per organizationally defined frequency. | System level information includes default and customized settings and security attributes, as well as software required for the execution and operation of the device. Information system backup is... |
| V-34631 | Low | The IDPS must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of information system documentation, including security related documentation, per organizationally defined frequency that is consistent with recovery time and recovery point objectives. | Information system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability. Information system and security related documentation contains information pertaining to system... |
| V-34636 | Low | The network element must use multifactor authentication for local access to non-privileged accounts. | Single factor authentication poses much unnecessary risk upon any information system as most single factor authentication methods use only a userid and password. Passwords are, in most cases,... |
| V-34634 | Low | The IDPS must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts. | Single factor authentication poses much unnecessary risk upon any information system as most single factor authentication methods use only a userid and password. Passwords are, in most cases,... |
| V-34635 | Low | The network element must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts. | Single factor authentication poses much unnecessary risk upon any information system as most single factor authentication methods use only a userid and password. Passwords are, in most cases,... |
| V-34511 | Low | The IDPS must display the notification message on the screen until the administrator takes explicit action to acknowledge the message. | All network devices must present a DoD approved warning banner prior to a system administrator logging on. The banner should be acknowledged by the user prior to allowing the user access to the... |
| V-34639 | Low | The network element must enforce multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts where one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the IDPS being accessed. | Single factor authentication poses much unnecessary risk upon any information system as most single factor authentication methods use only a userid and password. Passwords are, in most cases,... |
| V-34721 | Low | The network element must connect to external networks only through managed interfaces consisting of boundary protection devices arranged in accordance with organizational security architecture. | The firewall will build a state to allow return traffic for all initiated traffic that was allowed outbound. Monitoring and filtering the outbound traffic adds a layer of protection to the... |
| V-34733 | Low | The network element must produce, control, and distribute asymmetric cryptographic keys using approved PKI Class 3 or Class 4 certificates and hardware security tokens that protect the users private key. | The most secure algorithm is rendered useless if the keys cannot be kept secured. Left unprotected keys are vulnerable to duplication or modification. Duplication enables an attacker to copy a key... |
| V-34732 | Low | The network element must produce, control, and distribute asymmetric cryptographic keys using approved PKI Class 3 certificates or prepositioned keying material. | The most secure algorithm is rendered useless if the keys cannot be kept secured. Left unprotected keys are vulnerable to duplication or modification. Duplication enables an attacker to copy a key... |
| V-34731 | Low | The network element must produce, control, and distribute symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic keys using NSA-approved key management technology and processes. | The most secure algorithm is rendered useless if the keys cannot be kept secured. Left unprotected keys are vulnerable to duplication or modification. Duplication enables an attacker to copy a key... |
| V-34730 | Low | The network element must produce, control, and distribute symmetric cryptographic keys, using NIST-approved key management technology and processes. | The most secure algorithm is rendered useless if the keys cannot be kept secured. Left unprotected, keys are vulnerable to duplication or modification. Duplication enables an attacker to copy a... |
| V-34737 | Low | The network element must employ FIPS-validated cryptography to protect information when such information must be separated from individuals who have the necessary clearances yet lack the necessary access approvals. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-34736 | Low | The network element must employ NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information. | Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to... |
| V-34566 | Low | The IDPS must protect audit tools installed on the IDPS components from unauthorized access. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is... |
| V-34595 | Low | The IDPS must allocate sensor log record storage capacity. | The IDPS must allocate enough storage capacity to contain log records. Log records on the sensors are critical. If the log storage capacity is exceeded, the sensor may malfunction or shutdown. The... |
| V-34607 | Low | The IDPS must produce sensor event log records containing sufficient information to establish when the events occurred. | Logging the date and time of each detected event provides a means to investigate an attack; recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identify an improperly configured IDPS. In... |
| V-34606 | Low | The IDPS must produce sensor event log records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred. | Logging network location information for each detected event provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly... |
| V-34503 | Low | The IDPS must implement separation of duties through assigned information system access authorizations. | Separation of duties supports the management of individual accountability and reduces the power of one individual or administrative account. An example of separation of duties within the IDPS... |
| V-34727 | Low | The network element must maintain the confidentiality of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission. | If the organization is relying on a commercial service provider for transmission services as a commodity item rather than a fully dedicated service for both internal and external connectivity, it... |
| V-34560 | Low | The network element must provide a report generation capability for the audit log. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34561 | Low | The network element must provide the capability to automatically process audit log records for events of interest based upon selectable event criteria. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34646 | Low | The IDPS must enforce a Discretionary Access Control (DAC) policy that limits propagation of access rights. | Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, policy maps, and cryptography) are used to control... |
| V-34483 | Low | The IDPS must implement organizationally defined nondiscretionary access control policies over organizationally defined users and resources. | When nondiscretionary access control mechanisms are implemented, security labels are assigned to securable objects and users are granted access to the objects only if their level of access matches... |
| V-34724 | Low | The network element must maintain the integrity of information during aggregation and encapsulation in preparation for transmission. | This control applies to communications across internal and external networks. The IDPS must employ cryptographic mechanisms to recognize changes to information while preparing information for... |
| V-34648 | Low | The network element that collectively provides name/address resolution service for an organization must implement internal/external role separation. | A domain name system (DNS) server is an example of an information system that provides name/address resolution service. To eliminate single points of failure and to enhance redundancy, there are... |
| V-34515 | Low | Upon successful logon, the IDPS must display the date and time of the last logon of the user. | Providing users with information regarding the date and time of their last successful login allows the user to determine if any unauthorized activity has occurred and gives them an opportunity to... |
| V-34617 | Low | The IDPS must employ automated mechanisms to centrally apply configuration settings. | Uncoordinated or incorrect configuration changes to network components can potentially lead to network outages and possibly compromises. Centrally managing configuration changes for the IDPS can... |
| V-34649 | Low | The network element that collectively provides name/address resolution service for an organization must be fault-tolerant. | A domain name system (DNS) server is an example of an information system that provides name/address resolution service. To eliminate single points of failure and to enhance redundancy, there are... |
| V-34539 | Low | The network element must be configured to disable functionality that provides the capability for automatic execution of code on mobile devices without user direction. | Auto execution vulnerabilities can result in malicious programs being executed that can be used to cause a denial of service on the device and hence disrupt network services.
Examples of... |
| V-34532 | Low | The network element must audit remote sessions for accessing an organizationally defined list of security functions and security-relevant information. | Remote access services enable users outside of the enclave to have access to data and services within the private network. In many instances these connections traverse the Internet. Monitoring of... |
| V-34717 | Low | The network element must deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception at all interfaces at the network perimeter. | All inbound and outbound traffic must be denied by default. Firewalls and perimeter routers should only allow traffic through that is explicitly permitted. The initial defense for the internal... |
| V-34711 | Low | The IDPS must implement host based boundary protection mechanisms. | A host-based boundary protection mechanism is, for example, a host based firewall. Host based boundary protection mechanisms are employed on devices to protect the asset where the data resides and... |
| V-34559 | Low | Audit log reduction must be enabled on the network element. | Log reduction is the capability of a system to consolidate, archive, and compress audit logs. This process saves space when saving these logs over a long time period. Log entries must not be... |
| V-34558 | Low | The network element must use automated mechanisms to alert security personnel to an organizationally defined list of inappropriate or unusual activities with security implications. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34557 | Low | The network element must centralize the review and analysis of audit records from multiple network elements within the network. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34556 | Low | The network element must integrate audit review, analysis, and reporting processes to support organizational processes for investigation and response to suspicious activities. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34555 | Low | The IDPS must be capable of taking organizationally defined actions upon audit failure. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is... |
| V-34554 | Low | The IDPS must be configured to send an alert to designated personnel in the event of an audit processing failure. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is... |
| V-34553 | Low | The network element must reject or delay network traffic generated above configurable traffic volume thresholds, as defined by the organization. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34552 | Low | The network element must enforce configurable traffic volume thresholds representing audit logging capacity for network traffic to be logged. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log,... |
| V-34551 | Low | The IDPS must provide a real-time alert when organizationally defined audit failure events occur. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. System administrators need to be notified as soon as possible of possible events which may have adverse security implications.... |
| V-34550 | Low | The network element must provide a warning when the logging storage capacity reaches an organizationally defined percentage of maximum allocated audit record storage capacity. | The central audit server configuration must include an allocation of space sufficient for the network element audit trail log. The audit server must generate an alert when the capacity reaches an... |
| V-34654 | Low | The network element must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in organizationally defined software applications and require organizationally defined actions prior to executing the code. | Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within the network element are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously. Mobile code technologies... |
| V-34650 | Low | The network element must perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on all resolution responses received whether or not local client systems explicitly request this service. | A recursive resolving or caching domain name system (DNS) server is an example of an information system that provides name/address resolution service for local clients. Authoritative DNS servers... |
| V-34651 | Low | The network element must perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources when requested by client systems. | A recursive resolving or caching domain name system (DNS) server is an example of an information system that provides name/address resolution service for local clients. Authoritative DNS servers... |
| V-34592 | Low | The IDPS must compile audit records from multiple components into a system-wide audit trail that is time-correlated to within organizationally defined level of tolerance for relationship between timestamps of individual records in the audit trail. | Sensors and agents monitor and analyze activity. The term sensor is typically used for the IDPS that monitor networks, including network-based, wireless, and network behavior analysis... |
| V-34520 | Low | The IDPS must limit the number of concurrent sessions for each account to an organizationally defined number. | This requirement addresses concurrent sessions for a given information system account and does not address concurrent sessions by a single user via multiple accounts. In many products, this value... |
| V-34700 | Low | The network element must prevent the presentation of information system management-related functionality at an interface for general (i.e., non-privileged) users. | Information system management-related functionality includes functions necessary to administer databases, network components, workstations, or servers, and typically requires privileged user... |
| V-34548 | Low | The network element allocates audit record storage capacity. | The network element must allocate storage capacity to contain audit log records. Log records are critical because if space is not available the sensor may malfunction. The site would lose valuable... |
| V-34544 | Low | The IDPS must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to determine if the event was a success or failure. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-34545 | Low | The IDPS must capture and log sufficient information to establish the identity of user accounts associated with the audit event. | Log record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes timestamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications,... |
| V-34540 | Low | The IDPS must produce audit log records that contain sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom, in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-34541 | Low | The IDPS must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish when the events occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-34542 | Low | The IDPS must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-34543 | Low | The IDPS must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish the source of the event. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, when and by whom in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging the actions of specific... |
| V-34661 | Low | The network element must implement policy filters that constrain data structure and content to organizationally defined information security policy requirements when transferring information between different security domains. | It is imperative that when information is being moved from one security domain to another, policy filters must be applied to the data to enforce the organization’s security policy requirements.... |
| V-34660 | Low | The network element must detect unsanctioned information when transferring information between different security domains. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled, so... |
| V-34663 | Low | The network element must identify information flows by data type specification and usage when transferring information between different security domains. | Traffic flows must be identified by types and traffic rates when information is being transferred between different security domains.
Data transfer requirements are not an IDPS function. This... |
| V-34662 | Low | The network element must decompose information into policy-relevant subcomponents for submission to policy enforcement mechanisms when transferring information between different security domains. | Information must be decomposed into policy-relevant subcomponents, so the applicable policies and filters can be applied when information is being transferred between different security domains.... |
| V-34667 | Low | The network element must disable network access by unauthorized devices and must log the information as a security violation. | Local access to the private network can easily be accomplished by merely connecting a workstation or laptop to any available wall plate or a wireless connection to a nearby access point. Remote... |
| V-34666 | Low | The IDPS must display security attributes in human readable form on each object output from the system to system output devices to identify an organizationally identified set of special dissemination, handling, or distribution instructions using organizationally identified human readable, standard naming conventions. | When applications generate or output data, the associated security attributes need to be displayed. Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an... |
| V-34668 | Low | The IDPS must activate an organizationally defined alarm when a system component failure is detected. | Predictable failure prevention requires organizational planning to address system failure issues. If components key to maintaining the system's security fail to function, the system could continue... |
| V-34510 | Low | The IDPS must display an approved system use notification message (or banner) before granting access to the system. | All network devices must present a DoD approved warning banner prior to a system administrator logging on. The banner should warn any unauthorized user not to proceed. It also should provide clear... |
| V-34598 | Low | The IDPS must capture and log organizationally defined additional information (identified by type, location, or subject) to the records for sensor events. | Sensor event logs must be configured to capture all organizationally defined information deemed necessary for possible event investigation and traceability. This additional information may... |
| V-34581 | Low | The IDPS must be configured to stop generating sensor log records or overwrite the oldest log records when a log failure occurs. | Sensor event logging is a key component of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-34579 | Low | The IDPS must integrate event review, analysis, and reporting processes to support organizational processes for investigation and response to suspicious activities. | Sensor event logging is a key component of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-34578 | Low | The IDPS must protect application audit logs from unauthorized deletion. | Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured system.... |
| V-34571 | Low | The IDPS must use internal system clocks to generate timestamps for audit records. | In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, the IDPS must support the organization's capability to correlate the audit log data... |
| V-34570 | Low | The IDPS must use internal system clocks to generate timestamps for sensor event records. | Sensor event logging is a key component of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-34572 | Low | The IDPS must synchronize internal system clocks on an organizationally defined frequency with an organizationally defined authoritative time source. | The various components within the network infrastructure providing the log records must have their clocks synchronized using a common time reference, so the events can be correlated in exact order... |
| V-34575 | Low | The IDPS must provide the capability to automatically process sensor log records for events of interest based upon selectable criteria. | Sensor event logging is a key component of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity... |
| V-34574 | Low | The IDPS must protect application audit event log information from unauthorized read access. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is... |
| V-34577 | Low | The IDPS must provide a log reduction capability for the sensor events log. | Log reduction is the capability of a system to consolidate, archive and compress audit logs. This process saves space when saving these logs over a long time period. Log entries must not be... |
| V-34576 | Low | The IDPS must protect application audit log information from unauthorized modification. | Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured system.... |
| V-34777 | Low | The organization must ensure all encrypted traffic is visible to network monitoring tools. | IDPS sensors must be deployed at strategic locations within the network. At a minimum, they should be deployed within the DMZ and behind the firewall. It is important to not only monitor traffic... |
| V-34676 | Low | The IDPS must enforce the number of characters changed when passwords are changed. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34674 | Low | The IDPS must enforce password complexity by the number of numeric characters used. | To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a strong password that is privately maintained and changed based on the organizationally defined... |
| V-34672 | Low | The IDPS must enforce password complexity by the number of upper case characters used. | Authorization for access to any IDPS requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account holder must create a... |
| V-34584 | Low | The network element must produce audit records on hardware-enforced write-once media. | It is imperative the collected log data from the various the network element is secured and stored on write-once media for safekeeping.
This is not applicable for IDPS. Sensor logs are aggregated... |
| V-34712 | Low | The network element must isolate organizationally defined key information security tools, mechanisms, and support components from other internal information system components via physically separate subnets. | To secure the enclave, the site must implement defense-in-depth security. This requires the deployment of various network security elements at strategic locations. The enclave must also be... |
| V-34585 | Low | The network element must backup system level audit event log records on an organizationally defined frequency onto a different system or media. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was... |
| V-34462 | Low | The IDPS must provide automated support for account management functions. | Since the accounts in the IDPS are privileged or system level accounts, account management and distribution is vital to the security of the IDPS. If an attacker compromises an account, IDPS... |
| V-34467 | Low | The IDPS must notify the appropriate individuals when accounts are created. | Because the accounts used to access the IDPS components are privileged or system level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the system. In order to detect and respond to events... |
| V-34466 | Low | The IDPS must automatically audit the creation of accounts. | Since the accounts in the IDPS are privileged or system level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the IDPS. Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, they often... |
| V-34465 | Low | The IDPS must automatically disable inactive accounts after an organizationally defined time period of inactivity. | Since the accounts in the IDPS are privileged or system level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the IDPS. Inactive accounts could be reactivated or compromised by... |
| V-34464 | Low | The IDPS must automatically terminate emergency accounts after an organizationally defined time period. | Emergency accounts are established in response to crisis situations and with the need for rapid account activation. Therefore, emergency account activation may bypass normal account authorization... |
| V-34785 | Low | The IDPS must provide automated support for the management of distributed security testing. | The need to verify security functionality is necessary to ensure the IDPS’s defense is enabled. To scale the deployment of the verification process, the IDPS must provide automated support for the... |
| V-34643 | Low | The network element must authenticate devices before establishing remote network connections using bidirectional authentication between cryptographically based devices. | This requirement addresses device to device authentication during remote network management sessions used to manage the IDPS components. A remote connection is any connection with a device... |
| V-34549 | Low | The network element logging function must be configured to reduce the likelihood of audit log record capacity being exceeded. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was... |
| V-34469 | Low | The IDPS must notify the appropriate individuals when accounts are modified. | Because the accounts used to access the IDPS components are privileged or system level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the system. In order to respond to events affecting... |
| V-34565 | Low | The IDPS must backup system level and sensor event log records at an organizationally defined frequency onto a different system or media. | Sensor event logging is a key component of any security architecture. An attack may cause corruption or delete the active events log. Maintaining a backup of the logs will minimize the loss of... |
| V-34718 | Low | The network element must route organizationally defined internal communications traffic to organizationally defined external networks through authenticated proxy servers within the managed interfaces of boundary protection devices. | A proxy server is designed to hide the identity of the client when making a connection to a server on the outside of its network, such as a web server, web mail, and chat rooms. This prevents any... |
| V-34765 | Low | The network element must prevent non-privileged users from circumventing malicious code protection capabilities. | It is critical the protection mechanisms used to detect and contain malicious code are not tampered with by unauthorized users.
This control pertains to anti-virus products which are out of scope. |
| V-34760 | Low | The network element must employ malicious code protection mechanisms to perform periodic monitoring of the information system on an organizationally defined frequency. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to read from and write to files and folders on a computer's hard drive. They... |
| V-34761 | Low | The network element must be configured to perform real-time monitoring of files from external sources as they are downloaded and prior to being opened or executed. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to read from and write to files and folders on a computer's hard drive. They... |
| V-34602 | Low | The IDPS must produce sensor log records containing sufficient information to determine if the event was a success or failure. | Denied traffic must be logged. There may also be some instances where a packet that was permitted or other successful event (i.e., logon) should be logged to establish and correlate the series of... |
| V-34600 | Low | The IDPS must capture and log sufficient information to establish the identity of any user accounts associated with the sensor log event. | Log records content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes: timestamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions,... |
| V-34768 | Low | The network element must interconnect and configure individual intrusion detection tools into a system-wide intrusion detection system using common protocols. | IDPS sensors must be deployed at strategic locations within the network. At a minimum, they should be deployed within the DMZ and behind the firewall. It is important to not only monitor traffic... |
| V-34468 | Low | The IDPS must automatically audit account modification. | Since the accounts in the IDPS are privileged or system level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the IDPS. Account management by a designated authority ensures access to the... |
| V-34619 | Low | The IDPS must protect against unauthorized physical connections across the boundary protections implemented at an organizationally defined list of managed interfaces. | Local access to the network can easily be accomplished by merely connecting a workstation or laptop to any available wall plate or a wireless connection to a nearby access point. Eliminating... |
| V-34599 | Low | The IDPS must generate audit log events for a locally developed list of auditable events. | Logging specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured IDPS. Locally developed... |
| V-34470 | Low | The IDPS must automatically audit account disabling actions. | Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the IDPS is being controlled in a secured manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account disabling actions will support... |
| V-34471 | Low | The IDPS must notify the appropriate individuals when the account has been disabled. | Account management by a designated authority ensures access to the IDPS is controlled in a secured manner by granting access to only authorized personnel with the appropriate and necessary... |
| V-34472 | Low | The IDPS must automatically audit account termination. | Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the IDPS is being controlled in a secured manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account termination will support... |
| V-34473 | Low | The IDPS must notify the appropriate individuals for account termination. | Account management by a designated authority ensures access to the IDPS is being controlled by granting access only to authorized personnel with the appropriate and necessary privileges. Automatic... |
| V-34475 | Low | The IDPS must monitor for unusual usage of administrative user accounts. | Atypical account usage is behavior that is not part of normal usage cycles (e.g., large amounts of user account activity occurring after hours or on weekends). A comprehensive account management... |
| V-34641 | Low | The network element must use organizationally defined replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to non-privileged accounts. | Authorization for access to any network element requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. The authenticator must be a separate device than the target device for which the... |
| V-34652 | Low | The network element must provide the means to indicate the security status of child subspaces and (if the child supports secure resolution services) enable verification of a chain of trust among parent and child domains. | A recursive resolving or caching domain name system (DNS) server is an example of an information system that provides name/address resolution service for local clients. Authoritative DNS servers... |
| V-34653 | Low | The network element must provide the means to indicate the security status of child subspaces and (if the child supports secure resolution services) enable verification of a chain of trust among parent and child domains when operating as part of a distribution. | This control enables remote clients to obtain origin authentication and integrity verification assurances for the host/service name to network address resolution information obtained through the... |
| V-34750 | Low | The IDPS must preserve organizationally defined system state information in the event of a system failure. | Failure in a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure in a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality,... |
| V-34752 | Low | The IDPS must protect the confidentiality and integrity of system information at rest. | This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of system information at rest when it is located on a secondary storage device within the IDPS. It is imperative that system... |
| V-34755 | Low | The network element must be configured to automatically check for security updates to the application software on an organizationally defined frequency. | Security relevant software updates must be installed promptly and updated in order to mitigate the exploitation of known vulnerabilities. Flaws discovered during security assessments, continuous... |
| V-34754 | Low | The network element must protect the integrity of information during the processes of data aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission. | Information can be subjected to unauthorized changes (e.g., malicious or unintentional modification) at information aggregation or protocol transformation points.
This control is covered as part... |
| V-34756 | Low | The network element must be configured to implement automated patch management tools to facilitate flaw remediation to network components. | It is imperative that the organization promptly installs security relevant software updates from an authorized patch management server to mitigate the risk of new vulnerabilities. Flaws discovered... |
| V-34593 | Low | The IDPS must produce a system-wide audit trail composed of log records in a standardized format. | Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is... |
| V-34611 | Low | The IDPS must produce sensor event log records that contain sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred. | Associating event types with detected events in the sensor logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly... |
| V-34591 | Low | The IDPS sensor event logging function must reduce the likelihood of log record capacity being exceeded. | Event logging is a key function of the IDPS. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply... |
| V-34596 | Low | The IDPS must allow designated organizational personnel to select which auditable events are to be audited by specific components of the system. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, where it was done, when it was... |
| V-34594 | Low | The IDPS must provide audit record generation capability for organizationally defined auditable events occurring within IDPS. | Centrally logging the sensor information provides a central location to store, view, analyze, and produce detailed reports on alerts. Auditing and logging are key components of any security... |
| V-34758 | Low | The network element must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network to detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means or inserted through the exploitation of information system vulnerabilities. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to read from and write to files and folders on a computer's hard drive. It... |
| V-34587 | Low | The IDPS must use cryptography to protect the integrity of audit tools. | Audit tools provide services, such as audit reduction, reporting, or analysis. Without mechanisms, such as a signed hash using asymmetric cryptography, the integrity of the collected data garnered... |
| V-34686 | Low | The network element must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users. | Non-organizational users shall be uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization when related to the use... |
| V-34517 | Low | The IDPS must notify the user of the number of successful login attempts occurring during an organizationally defined time period. | Users must be aware of access activity regarding their account. Providing users with information regarding the date and time of their last successful login allows the user to determine if any... |
| V-34696 | Low | The network element must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect and restrict access to information on portable digital media. | When data is written to portable digital media, there is the risk of loss of data along with integrity and data confidentiality. An organizational assessment of risk guides the selection of media... |
| V-34622 | Low | The IDPS must enforce a DAC policy that includes or excludes access to the granularity of a single user. | Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies and role-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, policy maps, cryptography) are employed by... |
| V-34516 | Low | Upon successful logon, the IDPS must display, to the user, the number of unsuccessful logon attempts since the last successful logon. | Providing users with information regarding the date and time of their last successful login allows the user to determine if any unauthorized activity has occurred and gives them an opportunity to... |
| V-34514 | Low | The IDPS must display a DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the device. | All network devices must present a DoD approved warning banner before granting access to the device. The banner shall be formatted in accordance with the DoD policy ""Use of DoD Information... |
| V-34629 | Low | The network element must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of user level information contained in the device per organizationally defined frequency that is consistent with recovery time and recovery point objectives. | User information contained on a network element is associated to the user's account and the resources the user is authorized to access. If this information becomes corrupted by hardware failures... |
| V-34588 | Low | The IDPS protects against an individual falsely denying having performed a particular action. | 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... |
| V-34589 | Low | The IDPS must provide a warning when the sensor event logging storage capacity reaches an organizationally defined maximum capacity. | It is imperative the IDPS be configured to allocate storage capacity to contain sensor event log records and an alert be generated when the capacity reaches an organizationally defined threshold.... |
| V-34749 | Low | The IDPS must fail to an organizationally defined known state for organizationally defined types of failures. | Failure in a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to a state that is known to be secure helps prevent the loss of... |
| V-34546 | Low | The IDPS must capture and log organizationally defined additional information (identified by type, location, or subject) to the audit records for audit events. | Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes timestamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail... |
| V-34741 | Low | The IDPS must issue public key certificates under an appropriate certificate policy or obtain public key certificates under an appropriate certificate policy from an approved service provider. | For user certificates, each organization attains certificates from an approved, shared service provider, as required by OMB policy. For federal agencies operating a legacy public key... |
| V-34659 | Low | The network element must prohibit the transfer of unsanctioned information in accordance with the security policy when transferring information between different security domains. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled, so... |
| V-34744 | Low | The IDPS must provide mechanisms to protect the authenticity of communications sessions. | This requirement addresses communications protection at the session, versus
packet level (e.g., sessions in service-oriented architectures providing web-based services). Maintaining the... |
| V-34767 | Low | The network element must not allow users to introduce removable media into the information system. | Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to read from and write to files and folders on a computer's hard drive. They... |
| V-34690 | Low | The IDPS must log non-local maintenance and diagnostic sessions. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the time, date, location, user, and actions performed of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack,... |
| V-34692 | Low | The network element must protect non-local maintenance sessions by separating the maintenance session from other network sessions with the device, by using either physically separated communications paths, or logically separated communications paths based upon encryption. | Network management is the process of monitoring network elements and links, configuring network elements, and enabling network services. Network management also includes the collection of... |
| V-34694 | Low | The network element must enforce identification and authentication for the establishment of non-local maintenance and diagnostic sessions. | Lack of authentication enables anyone to gain access to the network or possibly a network element, thus providing an opportunity for intruders to compromise resources within the network... |
| V-34695 | Low | The network element must terminate all sessions when non-local maintenance is completed. | In the event the remote node has abnormally terminated or an upstream link from the managed device is down, the management session will be terminated; thereby, freeing device resources and... |
| V-34547 | Low | IDPS audit events must be transmitted to the organizations central audit log server. | The organization must centrally manage the content of audit records generated by organizationally defined IDPS components. Centrally managing audit data captured by the central management console... |
| V-34699 | Low | The network element must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality. | The IDPS must prevent the presentation of information system management functionality at an interface for general (i.e., non-privileged) users. The intent of this control enhancement is to ensure... |
| V-34519 | Low | The IDPS must notify the user of organizationally defined security related changes to the users account occurring during the organizationally defined time period. | Providing users with information regarding organizationally defined security related changes to the user’s account occurring during the organizationally defined time period, allows the user to... |
| V-34518 | Low | The IDPS must notify the user of the number of unsuccessful login attempts occurring during organizationally defined time period. | Providing users with information regarding the number of unsuccessful logon attempts to the local device that has occurred over an organizationally defined time period. Without this information,... |
| V-34693 | Low | The network element must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity and confidentiality of non-local maintenance and diagnostic communications. | Lack of authentication enables anyone to gain access to the network or possibly a network element, thus providing an opportunity for intruders to compromise resources within the network... |
| V-34642 | Low | The IDPS must authenticate an organizationally defined list of specific devices by device type before establishing a connection. | An IDPS must have a level of trust with any node wanting to connect to it. Device authentication prevents an authorized user from connecting to perform privileged functions using a device which... |
