| V-55105 | High | The network device must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication. Factors include:
(i) something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) something a user has (e.g.,... |
| V-55219 | Medium | The network device must prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization. | Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the network device. Verifying software components have been digitally signed using a certificate that is... |
| V-55215 | Medium | If the network device uses discretionary access control, the network device must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects. | Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual network administrators are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the... |
| V-55217 | Medium | If the network device uses role-based access control, the network device must enforce organization-defined role-based access control policies over defined subjects and objects. | Organizations can create specific roles based on job functions and the authorizations (i.e., privileges) to perform needed operations on organizational information systems associated with the... |
| V-55211 | Medium | The network device must be compliant with at least one IETF Internet standard authentication protocol. | Protecting access authorization information (i.e., access control decisions) ensures that authorization information cannot be altered, spoofed, or otherwise compromised during transmission.
In... |
| V-55213 | Medium | The network device must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit information at rest. | Audit records may be tampered with. If the integrity of audit data were to become compromised, then forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is... |
| V-55295 | Medium | The network device must generate audit log events for a locally developed list of auditable events. | Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack; to recognize resource utilization or... |
| V-55045 | Medium | The network device must automatically audit account modification. | Since the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the network device. Account management by a designated authority... |
| V-55169 | Medium | The network device must protect audit information from any type of unauthorized read access. | Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit information system activity.
If audit data were to become... |
| V-55047 | Medium | The network device must automatically audit account disabling actions. | Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account disabling actions will... |
| V-55291 | Medium | The network device must notify the administrator of the number of successful login attempts occurring during an organization-defined time period. | Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their network device management account. Providing administrators with information regarding the date and time of their last... |
| V-55041 | Medium | The network device must automatically disable accounts after a 35-day period of account inactivity. | Since the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the network device. Inactive accounts could be reactivated or... |
| V-55293 | Medium | The network device must use automated mechanisms to alert security personnel to threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g. CTOs) and IAW with CJCSM 6510.01B. | By immediately displaying an alarm message, potential security violations can be identified more quickly even when administrators are not logged into the network device. An example of a mechanism... |
| V-55043 | Medium | The network device must automatically audit account creation. | Upon gaining access to a network device, an attacker will often first attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is to create a new account.... |
| V-55163 | Medium | The network device must recognize only system-generated session identifiers. | Network device management web interfaces utilize sessions and session identifiers to control management interface behavior and administrator access. If an attacker can guess the session identifier... |
| V-55161 | Medium | The network device must invalidate session identifiers upon administrator logout or other session termination. | Captured sessions can be reused in "replay" attacks. This requirement limits the ability of adversaries to capture and to continue to employ previously valid session IDs.
This requirement is... |
| V-55167 | Medium | The network device must generate unique session identifiers using a FIPS 140-2 approved random number generator. | Sequentially generated session IDs can be easily guessed by an attacker. Employing the concept of randomness in the generation of unique session identifiers helps to protect against brute-force... |
| V-55049 | Medium | The network device must automatically audit account removal actions. | Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account removal actions will... |
| V-55165 | Medium | The network device must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records. | In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, the network device must support the organization's capability to correlate the audit... |
| V-55209 | Medium | The network device must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited. | Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Regularly backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited... |
| V-55203 | Medium | The network device must automatically audit account enabling actions. | Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to... |
| V-55201 | Medium | The network device must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group. | A shared/group account credential is a shared form of authentication that allows multiple individuals to access the network device using a single account. If shared/group account credentials are... |
| V-55207 | Medium | The network device must notify System Administrators (SAs) and Information System Security Officers (ISSMs) when accounts are created, or enabled when previously disabled. | Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to... |
| V-55205 | Medium | The network device must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operations on... |
| V-55071 | Medium | The network device must notify the administrator, upon successful logon (access), of the location of last logon (terminal or IP address) in addition to the date and time of the last logon (access). | Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their account. Providing them with information deemed important by the organization may aid in the discovery of unauthorized... |
| V-55283 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55073 | Medium | The network device must provide the capability for organization-identified individuals or roles to change the auditing to be performed based on all selectable event criteria within near-real-time. | If authorized individuals do not have the ability to modify auditing parameters in response to a changing threat environment, the organization may not be able to effectively respond, and important... |
| V-55281 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for administrator access to the system. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55075 | Medium | The network device must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements. | In order to ensure network devices have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, they need to be able to allocate audit record storage capacity. The task of allocating... |
| V-55287 | Medium | The network device must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. |
| V-55077 | Medium | The network device must generate an immediate alert when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of repository maximum audit record storage capacity. | If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75%, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion. This could lead to the loss of audit... |
| V-55285 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55079 | Medium | The network device must generate an immediate real-time alert of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an... |
| V-55171 | Medium | The network device must only allow authorized administrators to view or change the device configuration, system files, and other files stored either in the device or on removable media (such as a flash drive). | This requirement is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of system information at rest (e.g., network device rule sets) when it is located on a storage device within the network... |
| V-55289 | Medium | The network device must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs. | Configuring the network device to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensures compliance with federal standards and establishes a common security... |
| V-55175 | Medium | The network device or authentication server must never automatically remove or disable emergency administrator accounts. | Emergency accounts are administrator accounts which are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid account activation is required. Therefore, emergency account... |
| V-55177 | Medium | The application must reveal error messages only to authorized individuals (ISSO, ISSM, and SA). | Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state. Additionally, sensitive account... |
| V-55145 | Medium | The network device must map the authenticated identity to the user account for PKI-based authentication. | Authorization for access to any network device requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure only the assigned individual is using the account, the account must be... |
| V-55147 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands. | Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.
Organizations consider limiting the additional audit information to only... |
| V-55141 | Medium | The network device, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor. | Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate not already explicitly trusted.
A trust anchor is an authoritative... |
| V-55143 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individual or process associated with the event. | Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., administrators or processes acting on behalf of administrators) associated with the events, security personnel cannot... |
| V-55179 | Medium | The network device must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion. | Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit information system activity.
If audit data were to become... |
| V-55149 | Medium | The network device must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals. | To prevent the compromise of authentication information such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback from the network device must not provide any information that would allow... |
| V-55173 | Medium | The network device must protect audit information from unauthorized modification. | Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit network device activity.
If audit data were to become compromised,... |
| V-55197 | Medium | Network devices must provide a logout capability for administrator-initiated communication sessions. | If an administrator cannot explicitly end a device management session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; this is referred to as a zombie session. |
| V-55279 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55069 | Medium | The network device must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful login attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded. | By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account. |
| V-55277 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55067 | Medium | The network device must audit the execution of privileged functions. | Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external entities that have compromised information system accounts, is a serious... |
| V-55275 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete administrator privileges occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55065 | Medium | The network device must notify the administrator of changes to access and/or privilege parameters of the administrators account that occurred since the last logon. | Providing administrators with information regarding security-related changes to their account allows them to determine if any unauthorized activity has occurred. Changes to the account could be an... |
| V-55273 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify administrator privileges occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55063 | Medium | Upon successful login, the network device must notify the administrator of the number of unsuccessful login attempts since the last successful login. | Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their network device management account. Providing administrators with information regarding the number of unsuccessful attempts... |
| V-55271 | Medium | If the network device uses mandatory access control, the network device must enforce organization-defined mandatory access control policies over all subjects and objects. | Mandatory access control policies constrain what actions subjects can take with information obtained from data objects for which they have already been granted access, thus preventing the subjects... |
| V-55061 | Medium | Upon successful login, the network device must notify the administrator of the date and time of the last login. | Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their network device management account. Providing administrators with information regarding the date and time of their last... |
| V-55093 | Medium | The network device must initiate session auditing upon startup. | If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is... |
| V-55091 | Medium | The network device must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur. | Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an... |
| V-55097 | Medium | The network device must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-55095 | Medium | The network device must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred. | It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment.... |
| V-55099 | Medium | The network device must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. | In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as device hardware components, device... |
| V-55303 | Medium | The network device must employ automated mechanisms to centrally verify authentication settings. | The use of authentication servers or other centralized management servers for providing centralized authentication services is required for network device management. Maintaining local... |
| V-55153 | Medium | The network device must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module. | Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DoD data may be... |
| V-55301 | Medium | The network device must employ automated mechanisms to centrally apply authentication settings. | The use of authentication servers or other centralized management servers for providing centralized authentication services is required for network device management. Maintaining local... |
| V-55151 | Medium | The network device must alert the ISSO and SA (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an... |
| V-55307 | Medium | The network device must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of system level information contained in the information system when changes occur or weekly, whichever is sooner. | System-level information includes default and customized settings and security attributes, including ACLs that relate to the network device configuration, as well as software required for the... |
| V-55157 | Medium | The network device must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern). | It is critical that when the network device is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it take action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware... |
| V-55305 | Medium | The network device must employ automated mechanisms to detect the addition of unauthorized components or devices. | This requirement addresses configuration management of the network device. The network device must automatically detect the installation of unauthorized software or hardware onto the device... |
| V-55155 | Medium | The network device must terminate all sessions and network connections when nonlocal device maintenance is completed. | If a device management session or connection remains open after management is completed, it may be hijacked by an attacker and used to compromise or damage the network device.
Nonlocal device... |
| V-55309 | Medium | The network device must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of information system documentation, including security-related documentation, when changes occur or weekly, whichever is sooner. | 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-55159 | Medium | The network device must terminate all network connections associated with a device management session at the end of the session, or the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements. | Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port... |
| V-55269 | Medium | The network device must protect against or limit the effects of all known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on the network device management network by employing organization-defined security safeguards. | DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity.
This... |
| V-55265 | Medium | Applications used for nonlocal maintenance sessions must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications. | This requires the use of secure protocols instead of their unsecured counterparts, such as SSH instead of telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and HTTPS instead of HTTP. If unsecured protocols (lacking... |
| V-55267 | Medium | Applications used for nonlocal maintenance sessions must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications. | This requires the use of secure protocols instead of their unsecured counterparts, such as SSH instead of telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and HTTPS instead of HTTP. If unsecured protocols (lacking... |
| V-63997 | Medium | The network device must not have any default manufacturer passwords when deployed. | Network devices not protected with strong password schemes provide the opportunity for anyone to crack the password and gain access to the device, which can result in loss of availability,... |
| V-55261 | Medium | The network device must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period. | Some authentication implementations can be configured to use cached authenticators.
If cached authentication information is out-of-date, the validity of the authentication information may be... |
| V-55263 | Medium | Network devices performing maintenance functions must restrict use of these functions to authorized personnel only. | There are security-related issues arising from software brought into the network device specifically for diagnostic and repair actions (e.g., a software packet sniffer installed on a device in... |
| V-55127 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the network device must require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least eight of the positions within the password. | If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of password compromise by increasing the window of opportunity for attempts at... |
| V-55081 | Medium | The network device must compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with an authoritative time server. | Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular event occurred on a system is critical when... |
| V-55083 | Medium | The network device must synchronize internal information system clocks to the authoritative time source when the time difference is greater than the organization-defined time period. | Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular event occurred on a system is critical when... |
| V-55085 | Medium | The network device must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation. | 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-55087 | Medium | The network device must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within the network device. | Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.
Audit... |
| V-55089 | Medium | The network device must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited. | Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured... |
| V-55311 | Medium | The network device 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 network... |
| V-55313 | Medium | The network device must obtain its public key certificates from an appropriate certificate policy through an approved service provider. | For user certificates, each organization obtains certificates from an approved, shared service provider, as required by OMB policy. For federal agencies operating a legacy public key... |
| V-55315 | Medium | The network device must limit privileges to change the software resident within software libraries. | Changes to any software components of the network device can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be allowed... |
| V-55297 | Medium | The network device must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the system components. | Changes to the hardware or software components of the network device can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals... |
| V-55259 | Medium | The network device must allow the use of a temporary password for system logons with an immediate change to a permanent password. | Without providing this capability, an account may be created without a password. Non-repudiation cannot be guaranteed once an account is created if a user is not forced to change the temporary... |
| V-55125 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the network device must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-55123 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the network device must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-55121 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the network device must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-55131 | Medium | The network device must store only encrypted representations of passwords. | Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily... |
| V-55251 | Medium | The network device must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials. | The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access.
DoD has mandated the use of the CAC to support identity management and personal authentication... |
| V-55253 | Medium | The network device must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials. | The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access.
DoD has mandated the use of the CAC to support identity management and personal authentication... |
| V-55255 | Medium | The network device must authenticate network management SNMP endpoints before establishing a local, remote, and/or network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based. | Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate... |
| V-55257 | Medium | The network device must dynamically manage identifiers. | Dynamic identifier management prevents disruption of operations by minimizing the need for system restarts. Dynamic establishment of new identifiers will occur while the system is operational. New... |
| V-55035 | Medium | The network device must retain the session lock until the administrator reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures. | A session lock is a temporary network device or administrator-initiated action taken when the administrator stops work but does not log out of the network device. Once invoked, the session lock... |
| V-55247 | Medium | The network device must require users to re-authenticate when privilege escalation or role changes occur. | Without re-authentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization.
When devices provide the capability to change security roles, it is critical the... |
| V-55037 | Medium | The network element must use two or more authentication servers for the purpose of granting administrative access. | All accounts used for network device management are privileged or system-level accounts. Therefore, if account management functions are not automatically enforced, an attacker could gain... |
| V-55245 | Medium | The network device must audit the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the device. | Without auditing the enforcement of access restrictions against changes to the device configuration, it will be difficult to identify attempted attacks, and an audit trail will not be available... |
| V-55031 | Medium | The network device must initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity. | A session lock is a temporary network device or administrator-initiated action taken when the administrator stops work but does not log out of the network device. Rather than relying on the user... |
| V-55243 | Medium | The network device must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to device configuration. | Failure to provide logical access restrictions associated with changes to device configuration may have significant effects on the overall security of the system.
When dealing with access... |
| V-55033 | Medium | The application or console being used to administer a network device must provide the capability for network administrators to directly initiate a session lock. | A session lock is a temporary network device or administrator-initiated action taken when the administrator stops work but does not log out of the network device. Rather than being forced to wait... |
| V-55299 | Medium | Accounts for device management must be configured on the authentication server and not the network device itself, except for the account of last resort. | Centralized management of authentication settings increases the security of remote and nonlocal access methods. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat. With... |
| V-55039 | Medium | The network device must automatically remove or disable temporary user accounts after 72 hours. | 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. If temporary... |
| V-55135 | Medium | The network device must enforce 24 hours as the minimum password lifetime. | Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement.
Restricting this setting limits the user's ability... |
| V-55137 | Medium | The network device must produce audit records that contain information to establish the outcome of the event. | Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attack was successful or if changes were made to the security state of the... |
| V-55129 | Medium | The network device must produce audit log records containing information to establish the source of events. | In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know the source of the event. The source may be a component, module, or... |
| V-55133 | Medium | The network device must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords. | Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily... |
| V-55139 | Medium | The network device must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction. | Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals.
One method of minimizing this risk is to use complex passwords and... |
| V-55189 | Medium | The network device must generate alerts that can be forwarded to the administrators and IAO when accounts are disabled. | When application accounts are disabled, administrator accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual device administrators or for identifying the device processes... |
| V-55231 | Medium | The network device must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks with the primary and secondary time sources located in different geographic regions using redundant authoritative time sources. | The loss of connectivity to a particular authoritative time source will result in the loss of time synchronization (free-run mode) and increasingly inaccurate time stamps on audit events and other... |
| V-55237 | Medium | The network device must generate an alert that will then be sent to the ISSO, ISSM, and other designated personnel (deemed appropriate by the local organization) when the unauthorized installation of software is detected. | Unauthorized software not only increases risk by increasing the number of potential vulnerabilities, it also can contain malicious code. Sending an alert (in real time) when unauthorized software... |
| V-55027 | Medium | The network device must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number for each administrator account and/or administrator account type. | Device management includes the ability to control the number of administrators and management sessions that manage a device. Limiting the number of allowed administrators and sessions per... |
| V-55235 | Medium | The network device must record time stamps for audit records that meet a granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision. | Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records. Time stamps generated by the application include date and time.... |
| V-55181 | Medium | The network device must activate a system alert message, send an alarm, and/or automatically shut down when a component failure is detected. | Predictable failure prevention requires organizational planning to address device failure issues. If components key to maintaining the device's security fail to function, the device could continue... |
| V-55239 | Medium | The network device must prohibit installation of software without explicit privileged status. | Allowing anyone to install software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that untested or potentially malicious software will be installed on the system. This requirement applies to... |
| V-55029 | Medium | The network device must conceal, via the session lock, information previously visible on the display with a publicly viewable image. | A session lock is a temporary network device or administrator-initiated action taken when the administrator stops work but does not log out of the network device. The network management session... |
| V-55185 | Medium | The network device must generate alerts that can be forwarded to the administrators and IAO when accounts are created. | Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to... |
| V-55187 | Medium | The network device must generate alerts that can be forwarded to the administrators and ISSO when accounts are modified. | Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to... |
| V-55101 | Medium | The network device must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services | In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must... |
| V-55103 | Medium | The network device must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational administrators (or processes acting on behalf of organizational administrators). | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational administrators must be uniquely identified and authenticated for all network management accesses to prevent potential... |
| V-55107 | Medium | The network device must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts. | Multifactor authentication is defined as: using two or more factors to achieve authentication.
Factors include:
(i) Something a user knows (e.g., password/PIN);
(ii) Something a user has... |
| V-55109 | Medium | The network device must ensure administrators are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator. | To assure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, administrators must be individually identified and authenticated.
Individual accountability mandates that each administrator... |
| V-55233 | Medium | The network device must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). | If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis.
Time stamps generated by the application include date and time.... |
| V-64001 | Medium | In the event the authentication server is unavailable, there must be one local account created for emergency administration use. | Authentication for administrative (privileged level) access to the device is required at all times. An account can be created on the device's local database for use in an emergency, such as when... |
| V-55195 | Medium | The network device must automatically terminate a network administrator session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect. | Automatic session termination addresses the termination of administrator-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of network connections that are associated with communications... |
| V-55193 | Medium | The network device must generate alerts that can be forwarded to the administrators and IAO when accounts are removed. | When application accounts are removed, administrator accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual device administrators or for identifying the device processes... |
| V-55191 | Medium | The network device must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on... |
| V-55199 | Medium | The network device must display an explicit logout message to administrators indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions. | If an explicit logout message is not displayed and the administrator does not expect to see one, the administrator may inadvertently leave a management session un-terminated. The session may... |
| V-68747 | Medium | The network device must authenticate Network Time Protocol sources using authentication that is cryptographically based. | If Network Time Protocol is not authenticated, an attacker can introduce a rogue NTP server. This rogue server can then be used to send incorrect time information to network devices, which will... |
| V-55221 | Medium | The network device must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures. | Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or processes may gain unnecessary access to information or privileges.... |
| V-55113 | Medium | The network device must disable identifiers (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity. | Inactive identifiers pose a risk to network devices. Attackers that are able to exploit an inactive identifier can potentially obtain and maintain undetected access to the device. Owners of... |
| V-55057 | Medium | The network device must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the device. | Display of the DoD-approved use notification before granting access to the network device ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws,... |
| V-55055 | Medium | The network device must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period. | By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced. |
| V-55053 | Medium | The network device must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the network device based on information flow control policies. | A mechanism to detect and prevent unauthorized communication flow must be configured or provided as part of the system design. If management information flow is not enforced based on approved... |
| V-55051 | Medium | The network device must enforce the assigned privilege level for each administrator and authorizations for access to all commands relative to the privilege level in accordance with applicable policy for the device. | To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-approved PKIs, all DoD systems must be properly configured to incorporate... |
| V-55119 | Medium | If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the network device must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one upper-case character be used. | Use of a complex passwords helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-55117 | Medium | The network device must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
To meet password policy requirements, passwords need... |
| V-55115 | Medium | The network device must enforce a minimum 15-character password length. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to... |
| V-55183 | Medium | The network device must protect audit tools from unauthorized access. | Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on... |
| V-55059 | Medium | The network device must retain the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner on the screen until the administrator acknowledges the usage conditions and takes explicit actions to log on for further access. | The banner must be acknowledged by the administrator prior to the device allowing the administrator access to the network device. This provides assurance that the administrator has seen the... |
| V-55111 | Medium | The network device must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. | A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be... |
