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Virtual Private Network (VPN) Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The VPN Gateway must employ organization-defined controls by type of denial of service (DoS) to achieve the DoS objective.

    DoS events may occur due to a variety of internal and external causes, such as an attack by an adversary or a lack of planning to support organizational needs with respect to capacity and bandwidth...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The VPN Gateway must establish organization-defined alternate communications paths for system operations organizational command and control.

    An incident, whether adversarial- or nonadversarial-based, can disrupt established communications paths used for system operations and organizational command and control. Alternate communications p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The VPN Gateway must configure OCSP to ensure revoked machine certificates are prohibited from establishing an allowed session.

    Situations may arise in which the certificate issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) may need to be revoked before the lifetime of the certificate expires. For example, the certificate is known to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The VPN Gateway providing authentication intermediary services must only accept end entity certificates (user or machine) issued by DOD PKI or DOD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of VPN sessions.

    Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CAs) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient secu...
    Rule Medium Severity

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