Cisco IOS Switch NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Cisco switch must be configured to limit the number of concurrent management sessions to an organization-defined number.
Device management includes the ability to control the number of administrators and management sessions that manage a device. Limiting the number of allowed administrators and sessions per administr...Rule Medium Severity -
The Cisco switch must be configured to automatically audit account modification.
Because the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the network device. Account management by a designated authority e...Rule Medium Severity -
The Cisco switch must be configured to automatically audit account disabling actions.
Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account disabling actions will ...Rule Medium Severity -
The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the device based on control policies.
A mechanism to detect and prevent unauthorized communication flow must be configured or provided as part of the system design. If management information flow is not enforced based on approved autho...Rule Medium Severity -
The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must lock out the user account from accessing the device for 15 minutes.
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.Rule Medium Severity
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