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Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The IDPS must block outbound traffic containing known and unknown DoS attacks by ensuring that security policies, signatures, rules, and anomaly detection techniques are applied to outbound communications traffic.

    <VulnDiscussion>The IDPS must include protection against DoS attacks that originate from inside the enclave which can affect either internal ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000229-IDPS-00163

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    Group
  • The IDPS must block any prohibited mobile code at the enclave boundary when it is detected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000235-IDPS-00169

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must fail to a secure state which maintains access control mechanisms when the IDPS hardware, software, or firmware fails on initialization/shutdown or experiences a sudden abort during normal operation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000236-IDPS-00170

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must provide log information in a format that can be extracted and used by centralized analysis tools.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Centralized review and analysis of log records from multiple IDPS components gives the organization the capability to better ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • In the event of a failure of the IDPS function, the IDPS must save diagnostic information, log system messages, and load the most current security policies, rules, and signatures when restarted.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure in a secure state address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to a s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000246-IDPS-00175

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must verify the integrity of updates obtained directly from the vendor.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the integrity of updates downloaded directly from the vendor is not verified, then malicious code or errors may impact the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000249-IDPS-00176

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must block malicious code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring the IDPS to delete and/or quarantine based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimizes the imp...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000273-IDPS-00198

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must block outbound ICMP Destination Unreachable, Redirect, and Address Mask reply messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-IDPS-00187

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    Group
  • SRG-NET-000512-IDPS-00194

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The IDPS must immediately use updates made to policy filters, rules, signatures, and anomaly analysis algorithms for traffic detection and prevention functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information flow policies regarding dynamic information flow control include, for example, allowing or disallowing informatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000113-IDPS-00013

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The IDPS must provide audit record generation capability for detection events based on implementation of policy filters, rules, signatures, and anomaly analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity

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