VMware NSX 4.x Manager NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The NSX Manager must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used for local accounts.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX Manager must terminate all network connections associated with a session after five minutes of inactivity.
Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take immediate control of a management session enabled on the console or conso...Rule High Severity -
The NSX Manager must not provide environment information to third parties.
Providing technical details about an environment's infrastructure to third parties could unknowingly expose sensitive information to bad actors if intercepted.Rule Low Severity -
The NSX Manager must be configured to conduct backups on an organizationally defined schedule.
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 -
The NSX Manager must enable the global FIPS compliance mode for load balancers.
If unsecured protocols (lacking cryptographic mechanisms) are used for load balancing, the contents of those sessions will be susceptible to eavesdropping, potentially putting sensitive data at ris...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX Managers must be deployed on separate physical hosts.
SDN relies heavily on control messages between a controller and the forwarding devices for network convergence. The controller uses node and link state discovery information to calculate and determ...Rule Medium Severity
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