IBM DataPower ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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In the event of a system failure of the DataPower Gateway function, the DataPower Gateway must save diagnostic information, log system messages, and load the most current security policies, rules, and signatures when restarted.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure in a secure state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000273-ALG-000129
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The DataPower Gateway must have ICMP responses disabled on all interfaces facing untrusted networks.
<VulnDiscussion>Providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. Orga...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318-ALG-000014
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To protect against data mining, the DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318-ALG-000151
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318-ALG-000152
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319-ALG-000015
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319-ALG-000020
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319-ALG-000153
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000331-ALG-000041
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to select a user session to capture or view, investigations into suspicious or harmful events would be...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000333-ALG-000049
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The DataPower Gateway must be configured to support centralized management and configuration.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and corre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000334-ALG-000050
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The DataPower Gateway must off-load audit records onto a centralized log server.
<VulnDiscussion>Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...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.
<VulnDiscussion>Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system opera...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000344-ALG-000098
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The DataPower Gateway must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
<VulnDiscussion>If the cached authenticator information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable. ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000345-ALG-000099
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The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network.
<VulnDiscussion>Without configuring a local cache of revocation data, there is the potential to allow access to users who are no longer autho...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000349-ALG-000106
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The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must conform to FICAM-issued profiles.
<VulnDiscussion>Without conforming to Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)-issued profiles, the information system may...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000355-ALG-000117
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The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of protected sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Non-DoD approved PKIs have not been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in p...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000112
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The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must protect against known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis (traffic thresholds).
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation...Rule High Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000120
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The DataPower Gateway must implement load balancing to limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Load balancin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000126
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The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must protect against known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing signatures.
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000155
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The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing pattern recognition pre-processors.
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000364-ALG-000122
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The DataPower Gateway must only allow incoming communications from organization-defined authorized sources routed to organization-defined authorized destinations.
<VulnDiscussion>Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic which poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000380-ALG-000128
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The DataPower Gateway must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives when invalid inputs are received.
<VulnDiscussion>A common vulnerability of network elements is unpredictable behavior when invalid inputs are received. This requirement guard...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000383-ALG-000135
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The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must be configured to integrate with a system-wide intrusion detection system.
<VulnDiscussion>Without coordinated reporting between separate devices, it is not possible to identify the true scale and possible target of ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000385-ALG-000137
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The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000385-ALG-000138
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The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when unauthorized network services are detected.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore, may be unreliable o...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000390-ALG-000139
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must continuously monitor inbound communications traffic crossing internal security boundaries for unusual or unauthorized activities or conditions.
<VulnDiscussion>If inbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored, hostile activity may not be detected and prevented. Output f...Rule Medium Severity
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