VMware NSX-T Manager NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The NSX-T Manager must be configured to send logs to a central log server.
<VulnDiscussion>Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a common ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000334
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The NSX-T Manager must disable SNMP v2.
<VulnDiscussion>SNMPv3 supports commercial-grade security, including authentication, authorization, access control, and privacy. Previous ver...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 15 minutes.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000190-NDM-000267
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must terminate the device management session at the end of the session or after 10 minutes of inactivity.
<VulnDiscussion>Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take c...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000373-NDM-000298
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks using redundant authoritative time sources.
<VulnDiscussion>The loss of connectivity to a particular authoritative time source will result in the loss of time synchronization (free-run ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000374-NDM-000299
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
<VulnDiscussion>If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000400-NDM-000313
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
<VulnDiscussion>Some authentication implementations can be configured to use cached authenticators. If cached authentication information is ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000435-NDM-000315
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must be configured to protect against known types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing organization-defined security safeguards.
<VulnDiscussion>DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot ac...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000499-NDM-000319
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The NSX-T Manager must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete administrator privileges occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to est...Rule Medium Severity
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