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BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server 3.x Security Technical Implementation Guide
BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server 3.x Security Technical Implementation Guide
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27 rules organized in 27 groups
SRG-APP-000119-AS-000079
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must protect log information from unauthorized modification.
Medium Severity
If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In addition, access to log records provides information an attacker could potentially use to his or her advantage. Application servers contain admin interfaces that allow reading and manipulation of log records. Therefore, these interfaces should not allow unfettered access to those records. Application servers also write log data to log files stored on the OS, so appropriate file permissions must also be used to restrict access. Log information includes all information (e.g., log records, log settings, transaction logs and log reports) needed to successfully log information system activity. Application servers must protect log information from unauthorized modification.
SRG-APP-000120-AS-000080
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must protect log information from unauthorized deletion.
Medium Severity
If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Application servers contain admin interfaces that allow reading and manipulation of log records. Therefore, these interfaces should not allow for unfettered access to those records. Application servers also write log data to log files stored on the OS, so appropriate file permissions must also be used to restrict access. Log information includes all information (e.g., log records, log settings, transaction logs, and log reports) needed to successfully log information system activity. Application servers must protect log information from unauthorized deletion.
SRG-APP-000142-AS-000014
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) platform must be protected by a DOD-approved firewall.
Medium Severity
Most information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services provided by default may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations. Unneeded services and processes provide additional threat vectors and avenues of attack to the information system. BEMS is a critical component of the mobility architecture and must be configured to enable only those ports, protocols, and services (PPS) necessary to support functionality. All others must be expressly disabled or removed. A DOD-approved firewall implements the required network restrictions. A host-based firewall is appropriate where BEMS runs on a standalone platform. Network firewalls or other architectures may be preferred where BEMS runs in a cloud or virtualized solution.
SRG-APP-000142-AS-000014
1 Rule
The firewall protecting the BEMS must be configured to restrict all network traffic to and from all addresses with the exception of ports, protocols, and IP address ranges required to support BEMS functions.
Medium Severity
Most information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations. Since BEMS is a critical component of the mobility architecture and must be configured to enable only those ports, protocols, and services (PPS) necessary to support functionality, all others must be expressly disabled or removed. A firewall installed on BEMS provides a protection mechanism to ensure unwanted service requests do not reach BEMS and outbound traffic is limited to only BEMS functionality.
SRG-APP-000142-AS-000014
1 Rule
The firewall protecting the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must be configured so that only DOD-approved ports, protocols, and services are enabled.
Medium Severity
All ports, protocols, and services used on DOD networks must be approved and registered via the DOD PPSM process. This is to ensure that a risk assessment has been completed before a new port, protocol, or service is configured on a DOD network and has been approved by proper DOD authorities. Otherwise, the new port, protocol, or service could cause a vulnerability to the DOD network, which could be exploited by an adversary. See the DOD Ports, Protocols, Services Management (PPSM) Category Assurance Levels (CAL) list for DOD-approved ports, protocols, and services.
SRG-APP-000439-AS-000155
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information through the use of an approved TLS version.
Medium Severity
Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that the application server take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism to protect the information during transmission. This is usually achieved through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS). Transmission of data can take place between the application server and a large number of devices/applications external to the application server. Examples are a web client used by a user, a backend database, a log server, or other application servers in an application server cluster. If data is transmitted unencrypted, the data then becomes vulnerable to disclosure. The disclosure may reveal user identifier/password combinations, website code revealing business logic, or other user personal information. FIPS 140-2 approved TLS versions include TLS V1.0 or greater. TLS must be enabled and non-FIPS-approved SSL versions must be disabled. NIST SP 800-52 specifies the preferred configurations for government systems.
SRG-APP-000439-AS-000274
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must remove all export ciphers to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information.
Medium Severity
During the initial setup of a Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection to the application server, the client sends a list of supported cipher suites in order of preference. The application server will reply with the cipher suite it will use for communication from the client list. If an attacker can intercept the submission of cipher suites to the application server and place, as the preferred cipher suite, a weak export suite, the encryption used for the session becomes easy for the attacker to break, often within minutes to hours.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must be configured to have at least one user in the following Administrator roles: Server primary administrator, auditor.
Medium Severity
Having several administrative roles for the BEMS supports separation of duties. This allows administrator-level privileges to be granted granularly, such as giving application management privileges to one group and security policy privileges to another group. This helps prevent administrators from intentionally or inadvertently altering other settings and configurations they may not understand or approve of, which can weaken overall security and increase the risk of compromise. - Server primary administrator: Responsible for server installation, initial configuration, and maintenance functions. Responsible for the setup and maintenance of security configuration administrator and auditor accounts. - Auditor: Responsible for reviewing and maintaining server and mobile device audit logs.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must be configured to use Windows Authentication for the database connection.
Medium Severity
To ensure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) are uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization, which outlines specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must be configured to use HTTPS.
High Severity
Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism to protect the information during transmission to web applications. This is usually achieved through the use of HTTPS.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must be configured to use DOD certificates for SSL.
Medium Severity
Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient security controls. If the CA used for verifying the certificate is not a DOD-approved CA, trust of this CA has not been established.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must be configured with an inactivity timeout of 15 minutes or less.
Medium Severity
A session time-out lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not log out because of the temporary nature of the absence. Rather than relying on the user to manually lock their application session prior to vacating the vicinity, applications need to be able to identify when a user's application session has idled and take action to initiate the session lock.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the Mail service (Push Notifications support for BlackBerry Work) is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to use Windows Authentication for the database connection.
Medium Severity
To assure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) are uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization, which outlines specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the Mail service (Push Notifications support for BlackBerry Work) is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to use Windows Integrated Authentication for the Exchange connection.
Medium Severity
To ensure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) are uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization, which outlines specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the Mail service (Push Notifications support for BlackBerry Work) is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to Enable SSL LDAP when using LDAP Lookup for users.
Medium Severity
Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism to protect the information during transmission. This is usually achieved through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) or SSL.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the Mail service (Push Notifications support for BlackBerry Work) is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to Enable SSL LDAP for certificate directory lookup.
Medium Severity
Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism to protect the information during transmission. This is usually achieved through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) or SSL.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Connect service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to use Windows Authentication for the database connection.
Medium Severity
To ensure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) are uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization, which outlines specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Connect service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to enable SSL support for BlackBerry Proxy and use only DOD approved certificates.
Medium Severity
Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism to protect the information during transmission. This is usually achieved through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) or SSL. Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient security controls. If the CA used for verifying the certificate is not a DOD-approved CA, trust of this CA has not been established.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Docs service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to use Windows Authentication for the database connection.
Medium Severity
To ensure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) are uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization, which outlines specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Docs service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to use NTLM authentication.
Medium Severity
To ensure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated. Organizational users include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Users (and any processes acting on behalf of users) are uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization, which outlines specific user actions that can be performed on the information system without identification or authentication.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Docs service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to use SSL for LDAP lookup to connect to the Office Web App Server (e.g., SharePoint).
High Severity
Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that applications take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism to protect the information during transmission. This is usually achieved through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) or SSL.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Docs service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to enable audit logs.
Medium Severity
Logging must be used to track system activity, assist in diagnosing system issues, and provide evidence needed for forensic investigations post security incident.
SRG-APP-000179-AS-000129
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) server must be configured to enable FIPS mode.
Medium Severity
Encryption is only as good as the encryption modules utilized. Unapproved cryptographic module algorithms cannot be verified and cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be compromised due to weak algorithms. In addition, the application must be configured to use the FIPS version of all cryptographic algorithms and modules.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Connect service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to enable the Web Proxy.
Medium Severity
The web proxy provides a secure gateway for the BlackBerry Connect service so that BEMS can securely connect to the internet.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Presence service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured with the whitelisting control to limit presence subscriptions to only single domain/tenant.
Low Severity
Whitelisting in Presence subscriptions is used to control which internal and federated environments can be subscribed to. Presence subscriptions should be limited to only DOD environments to control who has access to presence information on DOD users. This is an operational security (OPSEC) issue.
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
1 Rule
If the BlackBerry Docs service is installed on the BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS), it must be configured to enable the proxy server authentication type (if a proxy is used).
Medium Severity
The web proxy provides a secure gateway for the BlackBerry Docs service so that BEMS can securely connect to enterprise servers.
SRG-APP-000118-AS-000078
1 Rule
The BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) must protect log information from any type of unauthorized read access.
Medium Severity
If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In addition, access to log records provides information an attacker could potentially use to his or her advantage. Application servers contain admin interfaces that allow reading and manipulation of log records. Therefore, these interfaces should not allow unfettered access to those records. Application servers also write log data to log files stored on the OS, so appropriate file permissions must also be used to restrict access. Log information includes all information (e.g., log records, log settings, transaction logs, and log reports) needed to successfully log information system activity. Application servers must protect log information from unauthorized read access.