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Cloud Computing Mission Owner Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000480

    Group
  • 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 infrastructu...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480

    Group
  • 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, con...
    Rule High Severity
  • 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.

    Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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 rest...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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 Federatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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 ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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 accordanc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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 functionali...
    Rule Medium Severity

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