Firewall Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The firewall must fail to a secure state upon the failure of the following: system initialization, shutdown, or system abort.
Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized access to system resources. Network elements that fail suddenly and with no i...Rule Medium Severity -
In the event of a system failure of the firewall function, the firewall must be configured to save diagnostic information, log system messages, and load the most current security policies, rules, and signatures when restarted.
Failure to a secure state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to a secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or a...Rule Medium Severity -
The firewall must be configured to send traffic log entries to a central audit server for management and configuration of the traffic log entries.
Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the traffic log entries, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to...Rule Medium Severity -
The firewall must apply egress filters to traffic that is outbound from the network through any internal interface.
If outbound communications traffic is not filtered, hostile activity intended to harm other networks or packets from networks destined to unauthorized networks may not be detected and prevented. A...Rule Medium Severity -
The firewall must generate traffic log records when traffic is denied, restricted, or discarded.
Without generating log records that log usage of objects by subjects and other objects, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify...Rule Medium Severity -
The firewall must generate traffic log records when attempts are made to send packets between security zones that are not authorized to communicate.
Without generating log records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an inci...Rule Medium Severity -
The firewall must be configured to employ organization-defined controls by type of denial-of-service (DoS) to achieve the DoS objective.
DoS events may occur due to a variety of internal and external causes, such as an attack by an adversary or a lack of planning to support organizational needs with respect to capacity and bandwidth...Rule Medium Severity -
The firewall must be configured to establish organization-defined alternate communications paths for system operations organizational command and control.
An incident, whether adversarial- or nonadversarial-based, can disrupt established communications paths used for system operations and organizational command and control. Alternate communications p...Rule Medium Severity
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