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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000075

    Group
  • Operating systems must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.

    Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps to prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If users are allowed to immediately and continually...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000076

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000078

    Group
  • The operating system must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

    The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectivene...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000079

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000080

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  • The operating system must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.

    To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-approved PKIs, all DoD systems (e.g., web servers and web portals) must be...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000096

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  • SRG-OS-000104

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  • SRG-OS-000105

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  • The operating system must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts.

    Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authenticat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000106

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000107

    Group
  • The operating system must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.

    To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Multifactor authenti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000108

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000109

    Group
  • The operating system must require individuals to be authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.

    To ensure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be individually identified and authenticated. A group authenticator is a generic account used by mult...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000112

    Group

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