IBM MQ Appliance v9.0 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Access to the MQ Appliance network element must use two or more authentication servers for the purpose of granting administrative access.
All accounts used for access to the MQ Appliance network device are privileged or system-level accounts. Therefore, if account management functions are not automatically enforced, an attacker could...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the device.
Display of the DoD-approved use notification before granting access to the MQ Appliance network device ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal ...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation.
This requirement supports non-repudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required in order to maintain the integrity of the configuration management process. All configuration changes ...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited.
Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Regularly backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited ...Rule Medium Severity -
In the event the authentication server is unavailable, the MQ Appliance must provide one local account created for emergency administration use.
Authentication for administrative (privileged level) access to the MQ Appliance is required at all times. An account can be created on the device's local database for use in an emergency, such as w...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. To meet password policy requirements, passwords need t...Rule Medium Severity -
Authorization for access to the MQ Appliance network device must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.
Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals. One method of minimizing this risk is to use complex passwords and p...Rule Medium Severity -
The WebGUI of the MQ Appliance network device must terminate all network connections associated with a device management session at the end of the session, or the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port th...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must generate account activity alerts that are forwarded to the administrators and Information System Security Officer (ISSO). Activity includes, creation, removal, modification and re-enablement after being previously disabled.
Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to simply...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must generate an immediate alert when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.
If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion. This could lead to the loss of audit ...Rule Medium Severity -
WebGUI access to the MQ Appliance network device must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access. DoD has mandated the use of the CAC to support identity management and personal authentication ...Rule Medium Severity -
WebGUI access to the MQ Appliance network device must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access. DoD has mandated the use of the CAC to support identity management and personal authentication ...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
Some authentication implementations can be configured to use cached authenticators. If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be ques...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must use automated mechanisms to alert security personnel to threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., CTOs) and in association with CJCSM 6510.01B.
By immediately displaying an alarm message, potential security violations can be identified more quickly even when administrators are not logged into the MQ Appliance network device. An example of ...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of system level information contained in the information system when changes occur or weekly, whichever is sooner.
System-level information includes default and customized settings and security attributes, including ACLs that relate to the MQ Appliance network device configuration, as well as software required ...Rule Medium Severity -
The MQ Appliance network device must obtain its public key certificates from an appropriate certificate policy through an approved service provider.
For user certificates, each organization obtains certificates from an approved, shared service provider as required by OMB policy. For federal agencies operating a legacy public key infrastructure ...Rule Medium Severity -
SSH CLI access to the MQ Appliance management interface must be restricted to approved management workstations.
The approved method for authenticating to systems is via two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication is defined as using something you have (e.g., CAC or token) and something you know (e.g...Rule Medium Severity
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