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AAA Services Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000177

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to map the authenticated identity to the user account for PKI-based authentication.

    Without mapping the certificate used to authenticate to the user account, the ability to determine the identity of the individual user or group will not be available for forensic analysis.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000231

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000234

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to prevent automatically removing emergency accounts.

    Emergency accounts are administrator accounts that are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid account activation is required. Therefore, emergency account activation ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000234

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000291

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to notify the system administrators (SAs) and information system security officer (ISSO) when accounts are created.

    Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of re-establishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to simply ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000292

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000293

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to notify the system administrators (SAs) and information system security officer (ISSO) for account disabling actions.

    When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual users or for identifying the application processes themselves. Sending notif...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000294

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000319

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000320

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000345

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to maintain locks on user accounts until released by an administrator.

    By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000358

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to send audit records to a centralized audit 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 capacity.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000374

    Group
  • AAA Services must be configured to use or map to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to record time stamps for audit records.

    If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis. Time stamps generated by the application include date and time. Tim...
    Rule Medium Severity

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