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Severity |
Title |
Description |
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V-259887
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High |
The Mission Owners must select and configure a cloud service offering (CSO) listed in the DISA Provisional Authorization (PA) DOD Cloud Catalog at Level 6 when hosting classified DOD information. |
Impact Level 6 is reserved for the storage and processing of classified information. Impact Level 6 information up to the SECRET level must be stored and processed in a dedicated cloud infrastructure located in facilities approved for the processing of classified information, rated at or above the highest level of... |
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V-259886
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High |
The Mission Owner must select and configure an Impact Level 5 cloud service offering (CSO) listed in the DISA Provisional Authorization (PA) DOD Cloud Catalog when hosting Unclassified National Security Information (U-NSI). |
U-NSI must be housed on an Impact Level 5 CSO. This is Unclassified National Security Systems (NSS) information and data. This is because NSS-specific security requirements are included in FedRAMP+. |
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V-259885
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High |
The Mission Owner must select and configure an Impact Level 4/5 cloud service offering (CSO) listed in the DISA Provisional Authorization (PA) DOD Cloud Catalog when hosting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). |
Impact Level 4 accommodates Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). This information must be protected from unauthorized disclosure. Designating information as CUI is the responsibility of the data owner and their organization. Determining the appropriate Impact Level for a specific mission with CUI will be the responsibility of the mission AO.
Impact... |
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V-259881
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High |
For storage service offerings, the Mission Owner must configure or ensure the cloud instance uses encryption to protect all DOD files housed in the cloud instance. |
Mission systems at all Impact Levels must have the capability for DOD data to be encrypted at rest with exclusive DOD control of encryption keys and key management. Some cloud service offerings (CSOs) may facilitate this by providing a Hardware Security Module (HSM) or offering customer-dedicated HSM devices as a... |
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V-259872
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High |
The Mission Owner must configure the customer service portal credentials for least privilege. |
The Mission Owner must appoint specific individuals or entities to establish plans and policies for the control of privileged user access (including root account credentials) used to establish, configure, and control a Mission Owner's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configuration once connected to the DISA Information Systems Network (DISN). These individuals... |
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V-259888
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Medium |
The Mission Owner must add all applicable compensating controls and requirements in the Service Level Agreement (SLA)/contract with the cloud service provider (CSP) or third-party provider. |
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V-259884
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Medium |
The Mission Owner must select and configure an Impact Level 2 FedRAMP authorized cloud service offering (CSO) when hosting unclassified, publicly releasable DOD information. |
FedRAMP Moderate is the minimum security baseline for all DOD cloud services. Components and Mission Owners may host unclassified, publicly releasable DOD information on FedRAMP Moderate approved cloud services. This type of CSO is known as Impact Level 2. They may also configure an offering from the DISA PA DOD... |
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V-259883
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Medium |
The Mission owner must obtain Authorizing Official (AO) authorization for each cloud service offering (CSO) implemented in support of production or development environments prior to operational use. |
The Mission Owner must choose a CSO that fits the operational needs and also has a DOD Provisional Authorization (PA) at the information Impact Level corresponding to the categorization of the information to be processed or stored in the CSO. The PA and supporting documentation must then be leveraged by... |
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V-259882
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Medium |
The Mission Owner of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) must remove all upgraded or replaced software and firmware components that are no longer required for operation. |
Adversaries may exploit previous versions of software components that are not removed from the information system after updates have been installed. Some information technology products may remove older versions of software from the information system automatically. |
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V-259880
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Medium |
The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)/Platform as a Service (PaaS)/Software as a Service (SaaS) must register the service/application with the DOD DMZ/IAP allowlist for internet-facing inbound and outbound traffic. |
Register the service/application with the DOD DMZ/IAP allowlist for both inbound and outbound traffic if traffic will cross the internet access points (IAPs).
Using an allowlist provides a configuration management method for allowing the execution of only authorized software, ports, protocols, and guest virtual machines (VMs). Using only authorized software... |
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V-259879
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Medium |
The Mission Owner of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)/Platform as a Service (PaaS) must remove orphaned or unused virtual machine (VM) instances. |
Control of program execution is a mechanism used to prevent execution of unauthorized programs. Some VMs may provide a capability that runs counter to the mission or provides users with functionality that exceeds mission requirements. This includes functions and services installed at the VM level.
Some of the service and... |
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V-259878
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Medium |
For Impact Level 6, the Mission Owner must process connection approval to the SIPRNet through the DISA classified connection approval process. |
The DOD Mission Owner systems/applications instantiated in these Impact Level 6 CSO enclaves will be assessed and authorized in the same way as any other DOD SIPRNet enclave connection in accordance with the DISA CPG. Approval for connection to the SIPRNet will be processed through the DISA classified connection approval... |
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V-259877
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Medium |
For Impact Levels 4 and 5, the Mission Owner must register all cloud-based services, their CSP/CSO, and connection method in the DISA Systems/Network Approval Process (SNAP) database Cloud Module. |
Register all cloud-based systems and applications, including the cloud service provider (CSP)/cloud service offering (CSO) name, Mission Cyberspace Defense (MCD), and connection method in the DISA SNAP database Cloud Module. SNAP registration will enable cloud services to be connected to the DISA Information Systems Network (DISN) and is crucial for... |
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V-259876
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Medium |
The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)/Platform as a Service (PaaS) must perform centralized logging to capture and store log records. |
Protection of log data includes ensuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited on an organizationally defined frequency helps to ensure that in the event of a catastrophic system failure, the audit... |
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V-259875
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Medium |
The cloud service offering (CSO) must be configured to use DOD public key infrastructure (PKI) to uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). |
To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Identity Federation requirements to enable Common Access Card (CAC) authentication of nonprivileged DOD users to cloud-hosted DOD (e.g., Infrastructure as a Service [IaaS] and Platform as a... |
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V-259874
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Medium |
The Mission Owner must configure the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)/Platform as a Service (PaaS) to prohibit or restrict the use of functions, ports, protocols, and/or services. |
To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), Mission Owners must disable or restrict unused or unnecessary physical and logical ports/protocols on information systems. |
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V-259873
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Medium |
The Mission Owner must configure the cloud service offering (CSO)-provided customer logon banner to display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to users that must log on. |
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