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Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-NET-000078

    Group
  • SRG-NET-000091

    Group
  • The IDPS must provide log information in a format that can be extracted and used by centralized analysis tools.

    Centralized review and analysis of log records from multiple IDPS components gives the organization the capability to better detect distributed attacks and provides increased data points for behavi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000113

    Group
  • SRG-NET-000113

    Group
  • The IDPS must provide audit record generation capability for events where communication traffic is blocked or restricted based on policy filters, rules, signatures, and anomaly analysis.

    Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. While au...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000113

    Group
  • The IDPS must provide audit record generation with a configurable severity and escalation level capability.

    Without the capability to generate audit records with a severity code it is difficult to track and handle detection events. While auditing and logging are closely related, they are not the same. L...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000131

    Group
  • The IDPS must be configured to remove or disable non-essential capabilities which are not required for operation or not related to IDPS functionality (e.g., DNS, email client or server, FTP server, or web server).

    An IDPS can be capable of providing a wide variety of capabilities. Not all of these capabilities are necessary. Unnecessary services, functions, and applications increase the attack surface (sum o...
    Rule Medium Severity

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