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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions to ten for all accounts and/or account types.

    Operating system management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an operating system. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is hel...
    Rule Low Severity
  • The operating system must retain a users session lock until that user reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures.

    A session lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not want to log out because of the temporary...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The operating system must monitor remote access methods.

    Remote access services, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated monitoring capabilities, increase risk and make remote user access man...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The operating system must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

    Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be nec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The operating system must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

    Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessment ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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