The operating system must route organization-defined internal communications traffic to organization-defined external networks through authenticated proxy servers within the managed interfaces of boundary protection devices.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000149-NA	SRG-OS-000149-NA	SRG-OS-000149-NA_rule		Medium

Description
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. This prevents any hackers on the outside of learning IP addresses within the private network. With a proxy acting as the mediator, the client does not interact directly with the servers it is connecting to-the proxy server is in the middle handling both sides of the session.

Description

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. This prevents any hackers on the outside of learning IP addresses within the private network. With a proxy acting as the mediator, the client does not interact directly with the servers it is connecting to-the proxy server is in the middle handling both sides of the session.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-02-05

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000149-NA_chk )
RHEL6 cannot support this requirement without assistance from an external application, policy, or service. This requirement is NA.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000149-NA_fix)
This requirement is NA. No fix is required.