The operating system must provide the capability for a privileged administrator to configure the organization-defined security policy filters to support different security policies.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000018-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000018-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000018-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Organization-defined security policy filters may include, dirty word filters, file type checking filters, metadata content filters, and hidden content filters. In order to effectively manage these filters, the operating system must provide the mechanism to configure these filters. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding. Refer to SRG-OS-000016-ESXI5-PNF.

Description

Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Organization-defined security policy filters may include, dirty word filters, file type checking filters, metadata content filters, and hidden content filters. In order to effectively manage these filters, the operating system must provide the mechanism to configure these filters. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding. Refer to SRG-OS-000016-ESXI5-PNF.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000018-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000018-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.