VMware NSX-T Manager NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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NSX-T Manager must restrict the use of configuration, administration, and the execution of privileged commands to authorized personnel based on organization-defined roles.
To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access, privileged access must not automatically give an entity access to an asset or security boundary. Authorization procedures and controls must be implement...Rule High Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to d...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks using redundant authoritative time sources.
The loss of connectivity to a particular authoritative time source will result in the loss of time synchronization (free-run mode) and increasingly inaccurate time stamps on audit events and other ...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Manager 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 If cached authentication information is out-of-date, the validity of the authentication information may be quest...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must generate log records for the info level to capture the DoD-required auditable events.
Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack; to recognize resource utilization or capacity...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must be configured to conduct backups on an organizationally defined schedule.
System-level information includes default and customized settings and security attributes, including ACLs that relate to the network device configuration, as well as software required for the execu...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must be configured to send log data to a central log server for the purpose of forwarding alerts to the administrators and the Information System Security Officer (ISSO).
The aggregation of log data kept on a syslog server can be used to detect attacks and trigger an alert to the appropriate security personnel. The stored log data can used to detect weaknesses in se...Rule High Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must not provide environment information to third parties.
Providing technical details about an environment's infrastructure to third parties could unknowingly expose sensitive information to bad actors if intercepted.Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Manager must disable unused local accounts.
Prior to NSX-T 3.1 and earlier, there are three local accounts: root, admin, and audit. These local accounts could not be disabled and no additional accounts could be created. Starting in NSX-T 3.1...Rule Medium Severity
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