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IBM DataPower ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must 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 prevent attacks launched against organizational information from unaut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.

    Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from unaut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must detect code injection attacks from being 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 launched against organizational databases may result in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.

    Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational databases may result in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering as part of its intermediary services must detect 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 launched against organizational applications may result...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The DataPower Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must provide the capability for authorized users to select a user session to capture or view.

    Without the capability to select a user session to capture or view, investigations into suspicious or harmful events would be hampered by the volume of information captured. The intent of this req...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The DataPower Gateway must be configured to support centralized management and configuration.

    Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to a del...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The DataPower Gateway must off-load audit records onto a centralized log server.

    Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. Th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The DataPower Gateway must provide an immediate real-time alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO, of all audit failure events where the detection and/or prevention function is unable to write events to either local storage or the centralized server.

    Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected. Alerts provide organizations with urgen...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The DataPower Gateway must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.

    If the cached authenticator information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable. This requirement applies to all ALGs which may cache user authenticators...
    Rule Medium Severity

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