HYCU Protege Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000920-NDM-000320
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SRG-APP-000845-NDM-000220
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The HYCU virtual appliance must not have any default manufacturer passwords when deployed.
Virtual machines not protected with strong password schemes provide the opportunity for anyone to crack the password and gain access to the device, which can result in loss of availability, confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-NDM-000200
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SRG-APP-000033-NDM-000212
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The HYCU virtual appliance must enforce the assigned privilege level for each administrator and authorizations for access to all commands relative to the privilege level in accordance with applicable policy for the device.
To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DOD-approved PKIs, all DOD systems must be properly configured to incorporate ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000329-NDM-000287
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SRG-APP-000038-NDM-000213
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The HYCU virtual appliance must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the appliance based on information flow 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 -
SRG-APP-000343-NDM-000289
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SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214
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The HYCU virtual appliance must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid login attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 15 minutes.
By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000068-NDM-000215
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The HYCU virtual appliance must display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the device.
Display of the DOD-approved use notification before granting access to the network device ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws, Executi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000069-NDM-000216
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SRG-APP-000026-NDM-000208
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The HYCU virtual appliance must automatically audit account creation.
Upon gaining access to a network device, an attacker will often first attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is to create a new account. Notifica...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000027-NDM-000209
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SRG-APP-000028-NDM-000210
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The HYCU virtual appliance must automatically audit account disabling actions.
Account management 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 support accou...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000029-NDM-000211
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The HYCU virtual appliance must automatically audit account removal 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 removal actions will su...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000175-NDM-000262
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The HYCU virtual appliance must be configured to use DOD-approved online certificate status protocol (OCSP) responders or certificate revocation lists (CRLs) to validate certificates used for PKI-based authentication.
Once issued by a DOD certificate authority (CA), public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are typically valid for three years or shorter within the DOD. However, there are many reasons a certif...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000336
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SRG-APP-000149-NDM-000247
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The HYCU virtual appliance must be configured to use DOD PKI as multifactor authentication (MFA) for interactive logins.
MFA is when two or more factors are used to confirm the identity of an individual who is requesting access to digital information resources. Valid factors include something the individual knows (e....Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000091-NDM-000223
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SRG-APP-000495-NDM-000318
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The HYCU virtual appliance must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify administrator privileges occur.
Without generating audit 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 in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000499-NDM-000319
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SRG-APP-000503-NDM-000320
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The HYCU virtual appliance must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful login attempts occur.
Without generating audit 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 in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000504-NDM-000321
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SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000334
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SRG-APP-000096-NDM-000226
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SRG-APP-000101-NDM-000231
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The HYCU virtual appliance must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands.
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. Organizations consider limiting the additional audit information to only ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000095-NDM-000225
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The HYCU virtual appliance must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done to compile an accurate risk assessment. Associati...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000092-NDM-000224
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The HYCU virtual appliance must initiate session auditing upon startup.
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done to compile an accurate risk assessment. Associati...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000319-NDM-000283
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SRG-APP-000505-NDM-000322
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The HYCU virtual appliance must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for administrator access to the system.
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done to compile an accurate risk assessment. Associati...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000357-NDM-000293
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The HYCU virtual appliance must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
To ensure network devices have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, they must be able to allocate audit record storage capacity. The task of allocating audit record stora...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000341
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The HYCU virtual appliance must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of information system documentation, including security-related documentation, when changes occur or weekly, whichever is sooner.
Information system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability. Information system and security-related documentation contains information pertaining to system configur...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000515-NDM-000325
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