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VMware NSX 4.x Distributed Firewall Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-NET-000074-FW-000009

    Group
  • SRG-NET-000193-FW-000030

    Group
  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must limit the effects of packet flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    A firewall experiencing a DoS attack will not be able to handle production traffic load. The high utilization and CPU caused by a DoS attack will also have an effect on control keep-alives and time...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000202-FW-000039

    Group
  • SRG-NET-000364-FW-000040

    Group
  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must be configured to inspect traffic at the application layer.

    Application inspection enables the firewall to control traffic based on different parameters that exist within the packets such as enforcing application-specific message and field length. Inspectio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-FW-000042

    Group
  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must configure SpoofGuard to restrict it from accepting outbound packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address.

    A compromised host in an enclave can be used by a malicious platform to launch cyberattacks on third parties. This is a common practice in "botnets", which are a collection of compromised computers...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-FW-000042

    Group
  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must generate traffic log entries that can be sent by the ESXi hosts to the central syslog.

    Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit event content that may be neces...
    Rule Low Severity

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