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F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-NET-000380-ALG-000128

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  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

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  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

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  • SRG-NET-000140-ALG-000094

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  • The BIG-IP APM module must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources by employing identity-based, role-based, and/or attribute-based security policies.

    Successful authentication must not automatically give an entity access to an asset or security boundary. The lack of authorization-based access control could result in the immediate compromise and ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The BIG-IP APM module must restrict user authentication traffic to specific authentication server(s) when providing user authentication to virtual servers.

    User authentication can be used as part of the policy filtering rule sets. Some URLs or network resources can be restricted to authenticated users only. Users are prompted by the application or bro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The BIG-IP APM module access policy profile must control remote access methods to virtual servers.

    Remote access devices, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated control capabilities, increase risk and make remote user access managem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The BIG-IP APM module must be configured to require multifactor authentication for remote access with non-privileged accounts to virtual servers in such a way that one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the system gaining access.

    For remote access to non-privileged accounts, the purpose of requiring a device that is separate from the information system gaining access for one of the factors during multifactor authentication ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance APM Access Policies that grant access to web application resources must allow only client certificates that have the User Persona Name (UPN) value in the User Persona Client Certificates.

    To enhance the security, it is advisable to append additional checks and APM Deny/Fallback branches to APM Access Profiles in scenarios where a UPN cannot be extracted. To guarantee the exclusive u...
    Rule Low Severity
  • When the Access Profile Type is LTM+APM and it is not using any connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.) in the VPE, the F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the HTTP Only flag.

    To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Setting the APM HTTP Only flag ensures that a third party will not have access...
    Rule Low Severity

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