Palo Alto Networks ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must drop malicious code upon detection.
Malicious code is designed to compromise information systems; therefore, it must be prevented from being transferred to uninfected hosts. The Palo Alto Networks security platform allows customized...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must send an immediate (within seconds) alert to the system administrator, at a minimum, in response to malicious code detection.
Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability; then the ability to perform forensic analysis and detect rate-based and other anomalies will be ...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms.
Remote access is access to DOD nonpublic information systems by an authorized user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network. Remote access m...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must deny or restrict detected prohibited mobile code.
Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local system without explicit installation or execution ...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform, if used as a TLS gateway/decryption point or VPN concentrator, must control remote access methods (inspect and filter traffic).
Remote access devices, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated control capabilities, increase risk and makes remote user access manage...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security, if used as a TLS gateway/decryption point or VPN concentrator, must provide the capability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the information system.
Without the ability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access, an attack or other compromise taking place would not be immediately stopped. Remote access functionality must have the capab...Rule Medium Severity -
To protect against data mining, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must detect and prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from unaut...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform being used for TLS/SSL decryption using PKI-based user authentication must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certificate Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of protected sessions.
Non-DoD approved PKIs have not been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place that are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity asserte...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must block outbound traffic containing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to protect against the use of internal information systems to launch any DoS attacks against other networks or endpoints.
If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources may be unavailable to users. Installation of content filtering gateways and application-layer firewalls at key boun...Rule High Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must identify and log internal users associated with prohibited outgoing communications traffic.
Without identifying the users who initiated the traffic, it would be difficult to identify those responsible for the prohibited communications. This requirement applies to those network elements th...Rule Medium Severity
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