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CA API Gateway ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The CA API Gateway must protect the authenticity of communications sessions.

    Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions. This requirement focuses on communications pro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must integrate with an ICAP-enabled Intrusion Detection System that updates malicious code protection mechanisms and signature definitions whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures.

    Malicious code protection mechanisms include, but are not limited to, antivirus and malware detection software. In order to minimize any potential negative impact to the organization caused by mali...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must be configured to perform real-time scans of files from external sources at network entry/exit points as they are downloaded and prior to being opened or executed.

    Malicious code includes viruses, worms, trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to read from and write to files and folders on a computer's hard drive. Malici...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must send an immediate (within seconds) alert to the system administrator, at a minimum, in response to malicious code detection.

    Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, which will impede the ability to perform forensic analysis and detect rate-based and other anoma...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must block or restrict detected prohibited mobile code.

    Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local system without explicit installation or execution ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.

    Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local system without explicit installation or execution ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • To protect against data mining, the CA API Gateway providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.

    Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from unaut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • To protect against data mining, the CA API Gateway providing content filtering must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.

    Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational databases may result in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway must off-load audit records onto a centralized log server.

    Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. Th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The CA API Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must implement multifactor authentication for remote access to non-privileged accounts such 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

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