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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user authentication intermediary services must only accept end entity certificates issued by DOD PKI or DOD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of protected sessions.

    <VulnDiscussion>Non-DOD approved PKIs have not been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000112

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    Group
  • The BIG-IP Core implementation must be configured to protect against known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis when providing content filtering to virtual servers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000120

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    Group
  • The BIG-IP Core implementation must be configured to implement load balancing to limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to virtual servers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Load balancin...
    Rule High Severity

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