VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004
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SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
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The Photon operating system must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period.
By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-force attacks, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000023-GPOS-00006
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SRG-OS-000027-GPOS-00008
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The Photon operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions to ten for all accounts and/or account types.
Operating system management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an operating system. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is hel...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000032-GPOS-00013
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The Photon operating system must monitor remote access logins.
Remote access services, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated monitoring capabilities, increase risk and make remote user access man...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000033-GPOS-00014
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SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
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The Photon operating system must configure auditd to log to disk.
Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content must be shipped...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017
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The Photon operating system must enable the auditd service.
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. To that en...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020
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The Photon operating system must be configured to audit the execution of privileged functions.
Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external entities that have compromised information system accounts, is a serious and...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022
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SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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The Photon operating system must protect audit logs from unauthorized access.
Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confidentiality. Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit recor...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032
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SRG-OS-000064-GPOS-00033
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