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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Configure firewalld To Rate Limit Connections

    Create a direct firewall rule to protect against DoS attacks with the following command: <pre>$ sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Set Default firewalld Zone for Incoming Packets

    To set the default zone to <code>drop</code> for the built-in default zone which processes incoming IPv4 and IPv6 packets, modify the following lin...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • IPSec Support

    Support for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is provided with Libreswan.
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  • Install libreswan Package

    The libreswan package provides an implementation of IPsec and IKE, which permits the creation of secure tunnels over untrusted networks. The <code>...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Any Configured IPSec Tunnel Connections

    Libreswan provides an implementation of IPsec and IKE, which permits the creation of secure tunnels over untrusted networks. As such, IPsec can be ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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