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Application Layer Gateway (ALG) Security Requirements Guide (SRG)

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The ALG providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., IAVMs or CTOs) are detected.

    <VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000392-ALG-000143

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when root level intrusion events which provide unauthorized privileged access are detected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000392-ALG-000147

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when user level intrusions which provide non-privileged access are detected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000392-ALG-000148

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SRG-NET-000392-ALG-000149

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when new active propagation of malware infecting DoD systems or malicious code adversely affecting the operations and/or security of DoD systems is detected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000393-ALG-000144

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG that implements spam protection mechanisms must be updated automatically.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Originators of spam messages are constantly changing their techniques in order to defeat spam countermeasures; therefore, spa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000501-ALG-000036

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects 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-NET-000502-ALG-000037

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete categories of information (e.g., classification levels) 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-NET-000505-ALG-000039

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG providing user access control intermediary services must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.

    &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-NET-000331-ALG-000041

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG providing user access control intermediary services must provide the capability for authorized users to select a user session to capture or view.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to select a user session to capture or view, investigations into suspicious or harmful events would be...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000399-ALG-000042

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ALG providing user access control intermediary services must provide the capability for authorized users to capture, record, and log all content related to a selected user session.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to capture, record, and log content related to a user session, investigations into suspicious user act...
    Rule Medium Severity

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