VMware NSX-T Tier 1 Gateway Firewall Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-NET-000074-FW-000009
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The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must generate traffic log entries containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit event content that may be neces...Rule Medium Severity -
The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must deny network communications traffic by default and allow network communications traffic by exception (i.e., deny all, permit by exception).
To prevent malicious or accidental leakage of traffic, organizations must implement a deny-by-default security posture at the network perimeter. Such rulesets prevent many malicious exploits or acc...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000202-FW-000039
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The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must configure SpoofGuard to block outbound IP packets that contain illegitimate packet attributes.
If outbound communications traffic is not filtered, hostile activity intended to harm other networks may not be detected and prevented.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000075-FW-000010
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The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must generate traffic log entries containing information to establish the details of the event.
Without sufficient information to analyze the event, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit event content that must be i...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000089-FW-000019
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Each NSX-T Edge Node configured to host a Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must be configured to use the TLS or LI-TLS protocols to configure and secure traffic log records.
It is critical that when the network element is at risk of failing to process traffic logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure, secure collected log data, and restrict access to a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000192-FW-000029
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