IBM DataPower ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The DataPower Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).
<VulnDiscussion>Lack of authentication enables anyone to gain access to the network or possibly a network element that provides opportunity f...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000192-ALG-000121
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DataPower Gateway providing content filtering must not have a front side handler configured facing an internal network.
<VulnDiscussion>DoS attacks can take multiple forms but have the common objective of overloading or blocking a network or host to deny or ser...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000230-ALG-000113
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DataPower Gateway must protect the authenticity of communications sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000231-ALG-000114
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DataPower Gateway must invalidate session identifiers upon user logout or other session termination.
<VulnDiscussion>Captured sessions can be reused in "replay" attacks. This requirement limits the ability of adversaries from capturing and co...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DataPower Gateway must recognize only system-generated session identifiers.
<VulnDiscussion>Network elements (depending on function) utilize sessions and session identifiers to control application behavior and user ac...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000236-ALG-000119
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group
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