Skip to content

Cisco ISE NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000317-NDM-000282

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must change the password for the local CLI and web-based account when members who have access to the password leave the role and are no longer authorized access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If shared/group account credentials are not terminated when individuals leave the group, the user that left the group can sti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000026-NDM-000208

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • For the local web-based account of last resort, the Cisco ISE must automatically audit account creation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Upon gaining access to a network device, an attacker will often first attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000027-NDM-000209

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • For the local web-based account of last resort and the default local CLI account, the Cisco ISE must automatically audit account modification.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Since the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000028-NDM-000210

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • For the local web-based account of last resort, the Cisco ISE must automatically audit account disabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000029-NDM-000211

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • For the local account of last resort, the Cisco ISE must automatically audit account removal actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000319-NDM-000283

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must automatically audit account enabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestab...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000148-NDM-000346

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must be configured with only one local web-based account to be used as the account of last resort in the event the authentication server is unavailable.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Authentication for administrative (privileged level) access to the device is required at all times. An account can be created...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340-NDM-000288

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000343-NDM-000289

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must audit the execution of privileged functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must lock out the user account from accessing the device for 15 minutes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000068-NDM-000215

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • For the local account of last resort, the Cisco ISE must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the device.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of the DoD-approved use notification before granting access to the network device ensures privacy and security notifi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000080-NDM-000220

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This requirement supports non-repudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required in order to maintain the integ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000091-NDM-000223

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must generate audit records when successful attempts to access privileges occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000495-NDM-000318

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must generate audit records when successful attempts to modify administrator privileges occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000499-NDM-000319

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must generate audit records when successful attempts to delete administrator privileges occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000503-NDM-000320

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must generate audit records when successful logon attempts occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000504-NDM-000321

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000506-NDM-000323

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357-NDM-000293

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must limit audit record storage capacity for all locally stored logs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to ensure network devices have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, they need to be able ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000515-NDM-000325

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must configure a remote syslog where audit records are stored on a centralized logging target that is different from the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Storing audit logs to a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000360-NDM-000295

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must send an alarm to one or more individuals when the monitoring collector process has an error or failure.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000373-NDM-000298

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks using redundant authoritative time sources.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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 Cisco ISE must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-000381-NDM-000305

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must audit the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the device.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without auditing the enforcement of access restrictions against changes to the device configuration, it will be difficult to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000335

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the firmware, OS, and hardware components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes to the hardware or software components of the network device can have significant effects on the overall security of ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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