Palo Alto Networks IDPS Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-NET-000018-IDPS-00018
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SRG-NET-000077-IDPS-00062
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the event, including, at a minimum, originating source address.
Associating the source of the event with detected events in the logs provides a means of investigating an attack or suspected attack. While auditing and logging are closely related, they are not t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000078-IDPS-00063
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SRG-NET-000089-IDPS-00069
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SRG-NET-000192-IDPS-00140
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SRG-NET-000229-IDPS-00163
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must detect and deny any prohibited mobile or otherwise malicious code at the enclave boundary.
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 -
SRG-NET-000246-IDPS-00205
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must install updates for application software files, signature definitions, detection heuristics, and vendor-provided rules when new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures.
Failing to update malicious code protection mechanisms, including application software files, signature definitions, and vendor-provided rules, leaves the system vulnerable to exploitation by recen...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000249-IDPS-00176
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SRG-NET-000249-IDPS-00222
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must send an immediate (within seconds) alert to, at a minimum, the SA when malicious code is detected.
Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perform forensic analysis and detect rate-based and other anomalies will be i...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000251-IDPS-00178
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SRG-NET-000273-IDPS-00198
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must block outbound ICMP Destination Unreachable, Redirect, and Address Mask reply messages.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages are sent back to the sender to support diagnostics. However, some messag...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000273-IDPS-00204
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SRG-NET-000318-IDPS-00068
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SRG-NET-000318-IDPS-00182
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To protect against unauthorized 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 detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000334-IDPS-00191
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must off-load log records to a centralized log server.
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading ensures audit information does not get overwritten if the limited audit storage capa...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-IDPS-00196
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SRG-NET-000362-IDPS-00198
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SRG-NET-000383-IDPS-00208
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SRG-NET-000384-IDPS-00209
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SRG-NET-000385-IDPS-00210
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected.
Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services. Examples of network serv...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000385-IDPS-00211
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SRG-NET-000390-IDPS-00212
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SRG-NET-000391-IDPS-00213
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must continuously monitor outbound communications traffic for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions.
If outbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions, there will be times when hostile activity may not be noticed and defended against...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000392-IDPS-00214
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SRG-NET-000392-IDPS-00215
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SRG-NET-000392-IDPS-00216
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SRG-NET-000392-IDPS-00218
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SRG-NET-000392-IDPS-00219
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SRG-NET-000511-IDPS-00012
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The Palo Alto Networks security platform must enable Antivirus, Anti-spyware, and Vulnerability Protection for all authorized traffic.
The flow of all communications traffic must be monitored and controlled so it does not introduce any unacceptable risk to the network infrastructure or data. Restricting the flow of communications...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must capture traffic of detected/dropped malicious code.
Associating event outcome with detected events in the log provides a means of investigating an attack or suspected attack. The logs should identify what servers, destination addresses, application...Rule Medium Severity -
In the event of a logging failure caused by the lack of audit record storage capacity, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must continue generating and storing audit records if possible, overwriting the oldest audit records in a first-in-first-out manner.
It is critical that when the Palo Alto Networks security platform is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure. The Palo Alto Networks security ...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must have a denial-of-service (DoS) Protection Profile for outbound traffic applied to a policy for traffic originating from the internal zone going to the external zone.
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must include protection against DoS attacks that originate from inside the enclave which can affect either internal or external systems. These attacks may u...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must detect and drop any prohibited mobile or otherwise malicious code at internal boundaries.
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 must automatically install updates to signature definitions, detection heuristics, and vendor-provided rules.
Failing to automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms, including application software files, signature definitions, and vendor-provided rules, leaves the system vulnerable to exploit...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must block malicious ICMP packets.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages are sent back to the sender to support diagnostics. However, ICMP can b...Rule Medium Severity -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must detect and prevent SQL and other code injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack ...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis (traffic thresholds).
If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of IDPS detection and prevention components (i.e., sensors) at key bound...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must use a Vulnerability Protection Profile that blocks any critical, high, or medium threats.
If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of IDPS detection and prevention components (i.e., sensors) at key boun...Rule Medium Severity -
Palo Alto Networks security platform components, including sensors, event databases, and management consoles must integrate with a network-wide monitoring capability.
An integrated, network-wide intrusion detection capability increases the ability to detect and prevent sophisticated distributed attacks based on access patterns and characteristics of access. Int...Rule Medium Severity -
The Palo Alto Networks security platform must detect use of network services that have not been authorized or approved by the ISSM and ISSO, at a minimum.
Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogues for valid services. Examples of network serv...Rule Medium Severity
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