| V-94281 | High | Symantec ProxySG must be configured with a pre-established trust relationship and mechanisms with appropriate authorities that validate user account access authorizations and privileges. | User account and privilege validation must be centralized to prevent unauthorized access using changed or revoked privileges.
ALGs can implement functions such as traffic filtering,... |
| V-94279 | High | Symantec ProxySG must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Organizational... |
| V-94275 | High | Symantec ProxySG must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of network services as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments. | To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable or... |
| V-94283 | High | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must restrict user authentication traffic to specific authentication servers. | User authentication can be used as part of the policy filtering rule sets. Some URLs or network resources can be restricted to authenticated users only. Users are prompted by the application or... |
| V-94221 | High | Symantec ProxySG providing forward proxy intermediary services for TLS must be configured to comply with the required TLS settings in NIST SP 800-52. | SP 800-52 provides guidance on using the most secure version and configuration of the TLS/SSL protocol. Using older unauthorized versions or incorrectly configuring protocol negotiation makes the... |
| V-94227 | High | Symantec ProxySG must implement security policies that enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources by employing identity-based, role-based, and/or attribute-based security policies. | Successful authentication must not automatically give an entity access to an asset or security boundary. The lack of authorization-based access control could result in the immediate compromise and... |
| V-94229 | High | Symantec ProxySG must restrict or block harmful or suspicious communications traffic by controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks based on attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. Blocking or restricting detected harmful or suspicious... |
| V-94301 | High | Symantec ProxySG must terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session or terminate user sessions (nonprivileged session) after 15 minutes of inactivity. | 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-94311 | High | Symantec ProxySG must use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect the authenticity of communications sessions. | Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions.
This requirement focuses on communications... |
| V-94293 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after 300 seconds at a minimum. | If the cached authenticator information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.
This requirement applies to all ALGs that may cache user authenticators... |
| V-94291 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts. | A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be... |
| V-94303 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing forward proxy encryption intermediary services must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to implement encryption services. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-94343 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must continuously monitor outbound communications traffic crossing internal security boundaries for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions. | If outbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored, hostile activity may not be detected and prevented. Output from application and traffic monitoring serves as input to continuous... |
| V-94305 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing reverse proxy encryption intermediary services must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to generate cryptographic hashes. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-94271 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must not have unnecessary services and functions enabled. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions (capabilities or processes) and services. Some of these functions and services are installed and enabled by default. The... |
| V-94273 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must be configured to remove or disable unrelated or unneeded application proxy services. | Unrelated or unneeded proxy services increase the attack vector and add excessive complexity to the securing of the ALG. Multiple application proxies can be installed on many ALGs. However, proxy... |
| V-94319 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must implement load balancing to limit the effects of known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Load balancing provides service redundancy, which reduces the susceptibility of the... |
| V-94307 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing reverse proxy encryption intermediary services must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for digital signatures. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-94333 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must be configured to integrate with a system-wide intrusion detection system. | Without coordinated reporting between separate devices, it is not possible to identify the true scale and possible target of an attack.
Integration of the ALG with a system-wide intrusion... |
| V-94335 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must detect use of network services that have not been authorized or approved by the ISSM and ISSO, at a minimum. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services.
Examples of network... |
| V-94297 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network. | Without configuring a local cache of revocation data, there is the potential to allow access to users who are no longer authorized (users with revoked certificates).
The intent of this... |
| V-94257 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must use a centralized log server. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage... |
| V-94329 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must identify and log internal users associated with denied outgoing communications traffic posing a threat to external information systems. | Without identifying the users who initiated the traffic, it would be difficult to identify those responsible for the denied communications.
This requirement applies to network elements that... |
| V-94321 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must block outbound traffic containing known and unknown denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to protect against the use of internal information systems to launch any DoS attacks against other networks or endpoints. | DoS attacks can take multiple forms but have the common objective of overloading or blocking a network or host to deny or seriously degrade performance. If the network does not provide safeguards... |
| V-94255 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must generate audit records containing information to establish the identity of any individual or process associated with the event. | Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., users or processes acting on behalf of users) associated with the events, security personnel cannot determine... |
| V-94223 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing reverse proxy intermediary services for TLS must be configured to version 1.1 or higher with an approved cipher suite. | SP 800-52 provides guidance on using the most secure version and configuration of the TLS/SSL protocol. Using older unauthorized versions or incorrectly configuring protocol negotiation makes the... |
| V-94241 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user access control intermediary services must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user 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-94233 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must immediately use updates made to policy enforcement mechanisms such as policies and rules. | Information flow policies regarding dynamic information flow control include, for example, allowing or disallowing information flows based on changes to the PPSM CAL, vulnerability assessments, or... |
| V-94225 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG storing secret or private keys must use FIPS-approved key management technology and processes in the production and control of private/secret cryptographic keys. | Private key data is used to prove that the entity presenting a public key certificate is the certificate's rightful owner. Compromise of private key data allows an adversary to impersonate the key... |
| V-94341 | Medium | Reverse proxy Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must continuously monitor inbound communications traffic crossing internal security boundaries for unusual or unauthorized activities or conditions. | If inbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored, hostile activity may not be detected and prevented. Output from application and traffic monitoring serves as input to continuous... |
| V-94243 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user access control intermediary services must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access web resources 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-94235 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user access control intermediary services must display the Standard Mandatory DoD-approved Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the network. | Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the network ensures that privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable Federal... |
| V-94285 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must implement multifactor authentication for remote access to nonprivileged accounts such that one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the system gaining access. | For remote access to nonprivileged accounts, the purpose of requiring a device that is separate from the information system gaining access for one of the factors during multifactor authentication... |
| V-94315 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must fail to a secure state upon failure of initialization, shutdown, or abort actions. | Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized access to system resources. Network elements that fail suddenly and with no... |
| V-94277 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must require users to reauthenticate every 900 seconds when organization-defined circumstances or situations require reauthentication. | Without reauthentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization.
In addition to the reauthentication requirements associated with session locks,... |
| V-94313 | Medium | If reverse proxy is used for validating and restricting certs from external entities, and this function is required by the SSP, Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of protected sessions. | Non-DoD-approved PKIs have not been evaluated to ensure they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place that are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity asserted in... |
| V-94337 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must generate a log record when access attempts to unauthorized websites and/or services are detected. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services.
Examples of network... |
| V-94267 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing intermediary services for HTTP must inspect inbound HTTP traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as HTTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the normal RFC behavior of a protocol or service. This... |
| V-94245 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred. | Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.
Audit record content that may be... |
| V-94265 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing intermediary services for FTP must inspect outbound FTP communications traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as FTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the normal RFC behavior of a protocol or service. This... |
| V-94251 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events. | Without establishing the source of the event, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk... |
| V-94263 | Medium | The reverse proxy Symantec ProxySG providing intermediary services for FTP must inspect inbound FTP communications traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as FTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the normal RFC behavior of a protocol or service. This... |
| V-94247 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. | Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.
In order to compile an accurate risk assessment... |
| V-94309 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing reverse proxy encryption intermediary services must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to implement encryption services. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-94325 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must fail securely in the event of an operational failure. | If a boundary protection device fails in an unsecure manner (open), information external to the boundary protection device may enter, or the device may permit unauthorized information... |
| V-94345 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when detection events occur. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action, and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
Since these... |
| V-94249 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. | Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.
In order to compile an accurate risk assessment... |
| V-94261 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must provide an alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO of all audit failure events where the detection and/or prevention function is unable to write events to either local storage or the centralized server. | Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected.
Alerts provide organizations with... |
| V-94239 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user access control intermediary services 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-94331 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must tailor the Exceptions messages to generate error messages that provide the information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries. | Providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application and system.
Organizations must carefully consider the structure/content of error... |
| V-94347 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when denial-of-service (DoS) incidents are detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action, and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The ALG... |
| V-94317 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must protect against known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users.
Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-94339 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when access attempts to unauthorized websites and/or services are detected. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services.
Automated mechanisms... |
| V-94269 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing intermediary services for HTTP must inspect outbound HTTP traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as HTTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the normal RFC behavior of a protocol or service. This... |
| V-94299 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must conform to Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)-issued profiles. | Without conforming to FICAM-issued profiles, the information system may not be interoperable with FICAM-authentication protocols, such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID 2.0.
Use of FICAM-issued profiles... |
| V-94295 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG, when configured for reverse proxy/WAF services and providing PKI-based user authentication intermediary services, must map the client certificate to the authentication server store. | 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-94231 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled so it does not introduce any... |
| V-94219 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must ensure outbound traffic is monitored for compliance with remote access security policies. | Automated monitoring of remote access traffic allows organizations to detect cyber attacks and also ensure ongoing compliance with remote access policies by inspecting connection activities of... |
| V-94289 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must use multifactor authentication for network access to nonprivileged accounts. | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, nonprivileged users must use multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Multifactor... |
| V-94253 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of the events. | 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-94237 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user access control intermediary services for publicly accessible applications must display the Standard Mandatory DoD-approved Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system. | Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible network element ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with... |
| V-94327 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must deny network communications traffic by default and allow network communications traffic by exception (i.e., deny all, permit by exception). | A deny-all, permit-by-exception network communications traffic policy ensures that only connections that are essential and approved are allowed.
As a managed interface, the ALG must block all... |
| V-94287 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG providing user authentication intermediary services must implement multifactor authentication for remote access to privileged accounts such that one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the system gaining access. | For remote access to privileged accounts, the purpose of requiring a device that is separate from the information system gaining access for one of the factors during multifactor authentication is... |
| V-94323 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must allow incoming communications only from organization-defined authorized sources routed to organization-defined authorized destinations. | Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic that poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traffic may transit a network, which uses bandwidth... |
| V-94217 | Medium | If Symantec ProxySG filters externally initiated traffic, reverse proxy services must be configured. | Automated monitoring of remote access traffic allows organizations to detect cyber attacks and also ensure ongoing compliance with remote access policies by inspecting connection activities of... |
| V-94259 | Medium | Symantec ProxySG must be configured to send the access logs to the centralized log server continuously. | Off-loading ensures audit information does not get overwritten if the limited audit storage capacity is reached and also protects the audit record in case the system/component being audited is... |
