Skip to content

VMware NSX-T Tier 1 Gateway Firewall Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must block outbound traffic containing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to protect against the use of internal information systems to launch any DoS attacks against other networks or endpoints.

    DoS attacks can take multiple forms but have the common objective of overloading or blocking a network or host to deny or seriously degrade performance. If the network does not provide safeguards a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000333-FW-000014

    Group
  • The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must be configured to send traffic log entries to a central audit server for management and configuration of the traffic log entries.

    Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the traffic log entries, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-FW-000028

    Group
  • The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must employ filters that prevent or limit the effects of all types of commonly known denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, including flooding, packet sweeps, and unauthorized port scanning.

    Not configuring a key boundary security protection device such as the firewall, against commonly known attacks is an immediate threat to the protected enclave because they are easily implemented by...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-FW-000031

    Group
  • The NSX-T Tier-1 Gateway Firewall must apply ingress filters to traffic that is inbound to the network through any active external interface.

    Unrestricted traffic to the trusted networks may contain malicious traffic that poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traffic may transit a network...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000392-FW-000042

    Group

The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

Capacity
Modules