F5 BIG-IP Device Management Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The BIG-IP appliance must automatically remove or disable temporary user accounts after 72 hours.
<VulnDiscussion>Temporary accounts are established as part of normal account activation procedures when there is a need for short-term accoun...Rule Medium Severity -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to protect audit information from any type of unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully au...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to use NIAP evaluated cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit information at rest.
<VulnDiscussion>Audit records may be tampered with. If the integrity of audit data were to become compromised, then forensic analysis and dis...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to uniquely identify and authenticate organizational administrators (or processes acting on behalf of organizational administrators).
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational administrators must be uniquely identified and au...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.
<VulnDiscussion>Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to automatically remove or disable emergency accounts after 72 hours.
<VulnDiscussion>Emergency accounts are administrator accounts that are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must be configured to reveal error messages only to authorized individuals (ISSO, ISSM, and SA).
<VulnDiscussion>Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to activate a system alert message, send an alarm, and/or automatically shut down when a component failure is detected.
<VulnDiscussion>Predictable failure prevention requires organizational planning to address device failure issues. If components key to mainta...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to generate alerts that can be forwarded to the administrators and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) when accounts are created.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestab...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The BIG-IP appliance must be configured to generate alerts that can be forwarded to the administrators and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) when accounts are modified.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestab...Rule Medium Severity
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