| V-242173 | High | The Trend Micro TippingPoint Security Management System (SMS) must be configured to send security IPS policy to the Trend Micro Threat Protection System (TPS). | The flow of all communications traffic must be monitored and controlled so it does not introduce any unacceptable risk to the network infrastructure or data.
Restricting the flow of... |
| V-242199 | High | The TPS must generate a log record so an alert can be configured to, at a minimum, the system administrator when malicious code is detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perform forensic analysis and detect rate-based and other anomalies will be... |
| V-242197 | High | The SMS must install updates on the TPS for application software files, signature definitions, detection heuristics, and vendor-provided rules when new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures. | Failing to update malicious code protection mechanisms, including application software files, signature definitions, and vendor-provided rules, leaves the system vulnerable to exploitation by... |
| V-242188 | Medium | The SMS must be configured to remove or disable non-essential capabilities on SMS and TPS which are not required for operation or not related to IDPS functionality (e.g., web server, SSH, telnet, and TAXII). | An IDPS can be capable of providing a wide variety of capabilities. Not all of these capabilities are necessary. Unnecessary services, functions, and applications increase the attack surface (sum... |
| V-242189 | Medium | The TPS must detect, at a minimum, mobile code that is unsigned or exhibiting unusual behavior, has not undergone a risk assessment, or is prohibited for use based on a risk assessment. | Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local system without explicit installation or execution... |
| V-242167 | Medium | To protect against unauthorized data mining, the TPS must prevent code injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack... |
| V-242168 | Medium | To protect against unauthorized data mining, the TPS must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack... |
| V-242169 | Medium | To protect against unauthorized data mining, the TPS must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack... |
| V-242180 | Medium | The SMS must produce audit records containing information to establish where the event was detected, including, at a minimum, network segment, destination address, and TPS component which detected the event by sending all audit and system logs to a centralized syslog server. | Associating where the event was detected with the event log entries provides a means of investigating an attack or identifying an improperly configured IDPS. This information can be used to... |
| V-242181 | Medium | The SMS must produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the event, including, at a minimum, originating source address by sending all audit and system logs to a centralized syslog server. | Associating the source of the event with detected events in the logs provides a means of investigating an attack or suspected attack.
While auditing and logging are closely related, they are not... |
| V-242186 | Medium | In the event of a logging failure caused by the lack of audit record storage capacity, the SMS must continue generating and storing audit records, overwriting the oldest audit records in a first-in-first-out manner using Audit Log maintenance. | It is critical that when the TPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure.
The IDPS performs a critical security function, so its continued... |
| V-242187 | Medium | The SMS and TPS must provide log information in a format that can be extracted and used by centralized analysis tools. | Centralized review and analysis of log records from multiple SMS and TPS components gives the organization the capability to better detect distributed attacks and provides increased data points... |
| V-242184 | Medium | The TPS and SMS must off-load log records to a centralized log server. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading ensures audit information does not get overwritten if the limited audit storage... |
| V-242185 | Medium | In the event of a logging failure, caused by loss of communications with the central logging server, the SMS must queue audit records locally by using the syslog over TCP protocol until communication is restored or until the audit records are retrieved manually or using automated synchronization tools. | It is critical that when the TPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure.
Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors,... |
| V-242177 | Medium | The TPS must provide audit record generation capability for events where communication traffic is blocked or restricted based on policy filters, rules, signatures, and anomaly analysis. | To support the centralized analysis capability, the IDPS components must be able to provide the information in a format (e.g., Syslog) that can be extracted and used, allowing the application to... |
| V-242176 | Medium | The TPS must provide audit record generation capability for detection events based on implementation of policy filters, rules, signatures, and anomaly analysis. | 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.
While... |
| V-242182 | Medium | The SMS must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of events associated with detected harmful or potentially harmful traffic, including, at a minimum, capturing all associated communications traffic by sending all audit and system logs to a centralized syslog server. | Associating event outcome with detected events in the log provides a means of investigating an attack or suspected attack.
While auditing and logging are closely related, they are not the same.... |
| V-242183 | Medium | TPS must support centralized management and configuration of the content captured in audit records generated by all TPS components by using the Security Management System (SMS). | Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the log records, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to a... |
| V-242196 | Medium | The TPS must automatically install updates to signature definitions, detection heuristics, and vendor-provided rules. | Failing to automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms, including application software files, signature definitions, and vendor-provided rules, leaves the system vulnerable to... |
| V-242179 | Medium | The SMS must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred by sending all audit and system logs to a centralized syslog server. | Without establishing the time (date/time) an event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Associating the date and... |
| V-242172 | Medium | To protect against unauthorized data mining, the TPS must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack... |
| V-242171 | Medium | To protect against unauthorized data mining, the TPS must detect code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack... |
| V-242170 | Medium | To protect against unauthorized data mining, the TPS must detect code injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack... |
| V-242198 | Medium | The TPS must block malicious code. | Configuring the TPS to delete and/or quarantine based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimizes the impact of this code on the network. |
| V-242175 | Medium | The Trend Micro TPS must immediately use updates made to policy filters, rules, signatures, and anomaly analysis algorithms for traffic detection and prevention functions which are all contained in the Digital Vaccine (DV) updates. | 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-242195 | Medium | The TPS must block malicious ICMP packets by properly configuring ICMP signatures and rules. | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages are sent back to the sender to support diagnostics. However, some... |
| V-242194 | Medium | The TPS must block outbound ICMP Destination Unreachable, Redirect, and Address Mask reply messages. | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages are sent back to the sender to support diagnostics. However, some... |
| V-242178 | Medium | The SMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred, including, at a minimum, event descriptions, policy filter, rule or signature invoked, port, protocol, and criticality level/alert code or description by sending all audit and system logs to a centralized syslog server. | 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. Associating an event type with each... |
| V-242191 | Medium | The TPS must fail to a secure state which maintains access control mechanisms when the IDPS hardware, software, or firmware fails on initialization/shutdown or experiences a sudden abort during normal operation (also known as "Fail closed"). | 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. Preserving information system state information... |
| V-242190 | Medium | The TPS must block any prohibited mobile code at the enclave boundary when it is detected. | Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local system without explicit installation or execution... |
| V-242193 | Medium | The TPS must block outbound traffic containing known and unknown DoS attacks by ensuring that security policies, signatures, rules, and anomaly detection techniques are applied to outbound communications traffic. | The TPS must include protection against DoS attacks that originate from inside the enclave which can affect either internal or external systems. These attacks may use legitimate or rogue endpoints... |
| V-242192 | Medium | The TPS must protect against or limit the effects of known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing signatures. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users.
Installation of TPS detection and prevention components (i.e., sensors) at key... |
| V-242201 | Medium | The TPS must detect network services that have not been authorized or approved by the ISSO or ISSM, at a minimum, through use of a site-approved TPS device profile. | 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-242200 | Medium | SMS and TPS components, including sensors, event databases, and management consoles must integrate with a network-wide monitoring capability. | An integrated, network-wide intrusion detection capability increases the ability to detect and prevent sophisticated distributed attacks based on access patterns and characteristics of... |
| V-242203 | Medium | The IDPS must continuously monitor inbound communications traffic for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions. | If inbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions, there will be times when hostile activity may not be noticed and defended... |
| V-242202 | Medium | The IDPS must generate an alert to the ISSM and ISSO, at a minimum, when unauthorized network 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-242205 | Medium | The TPS must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSM and ISSO when intrusion detection events are detected which indicate a compromise or potential for compromise. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of intrusion detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
In... |
| V-242204 | Medium | The TPS must continuously monitor outbound communications traffic for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions. | If outbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions, there will be times when hostile activity may not be noticed and defended... |
| V-242206 | Medium | The site must register with the Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Management Center (TMC) in order to receive alerts on threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., IAVMs or CTOs) are detected which indicate a compromise or potential for compromise. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perform forensic analysis and detect rate-based and other anomalies will be... |
