CA API Gateway ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The CA API Gateway must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
If the cached authenticator information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable. This requirement applies to all ALGs that may cache user authenticators ...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must conform to Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM) issued profiles.
Without conforming to FICAM-issued profiles, the information system may not be interoperable with FICAM authentication protocols, such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID 2.0. Use of FICAM-issued profiles addr...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway must only allow incoming communications from organization-defined authorized sources routed to organization-defined authorized destinations.
Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic that poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traffic may transit a network, which uses bandwidth a...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must be configured to integrate with a system-wide intrusion detection system.
Without coordinated reporting between separate devices, it is not possible to identify the true scale and possible target of an attack. Integration of the ALG with a system-wide intrusion detectio...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must generate a notification on the console when root-level intrusion events that attempt to provide unauthorized privileged access are detected.
Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action, and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information. The ALG generate...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing content filtering must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when Denial of Service (DoS) incidents are detected.
Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action, and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information. The ALG generate...Rule Low Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing user authentication intermediary services must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily c...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing user access control intermediary services must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway providing encryption intermediary services must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for digital signatures.
Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards ...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway that provides intermediary services for HTTP must inspect inbound and outbound HTTP traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies.
Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as HTTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the normal RFC behavior of a protocol or service. This t...Rule Medium Severity
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