CA API Gateway NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000170-NDM-000329
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SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000336
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SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000334
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SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252
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SRG-APP-000109-NDM-000233
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SRG-APP-000125-NDM-000241
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The CA API Gateway must forward all log audit log messages to the central log server.
Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Regularly backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000080-NDM-000345
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The CA API Gateway must not have any default manufacturer passwords when deployed.
Network devices not protected with strong password schemes provide the opportunity for anyone to crack the password and gain access to the device, which can result in loss of availability, confiden...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000148-NDM-000346
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SRG-APP-000234-NDM-000272
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SRG-APP-000268-NDM-000274
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The CA API Gateway must activate a system alert message, send an alarm, and/or automatically shut down when a component failure is detected.
Predictable failure prevention requires organizational planning to address device failure issues. If components key to maintaining the device's security fail to function, the device could continue ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000320-NDM-000284
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The CA API Gateway must notify System Administrators (SAs) and Information System Security Officers (ISSMs) when accounts are created, or enabled when previously disabled.
Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to simply...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000325-NDM-000285
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The CA API Gateway must generate audit log events for a locally developed list of auditable events.
Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack; to recognize resource utilization or capacity...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000342
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SRG-APP-000373-NDM-000298
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SRG-APP-000374-NDM-000299
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The CA API Gateway must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis. Time stamps generated by the application include date and time. Tim...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000375-NDM-000300
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The CA API Gateway must record time stamps for audit records that meet a granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision.
Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records. Time stamps generated by the application include date and time. Granula...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000377-NDM-000301
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The CA API Gateway must generate an alert that will then be sent to the ISSO, ISSM, and other designated personnel (deemed appropriate by the local organization) when the unauthorized installation of software is detected.
Unauthorized software not only increases risk by increasing the number of potential vulnerabilities, it also can contain malicious code. Sending an alert (in real time) when unauthorized software i...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000310
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SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000310
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The CA API Gateway must authenticate SNMP endpoint devices before establishing a network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based.
Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000310
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The CA API Gateway must authenticate RADIUS endpoint devices before establishing a network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based.
Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000310
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The CA API Gateway must authenticate LDAPS endpoint devices before establishing a network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based.
Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000310
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SRG-APP-000435-NDM-000315
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The CA API Gateway must protect against or limit the effects of all known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on the CA API Gateway management network by employing organization-defined security safeguards.
DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity. This require...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000503-NDM-000320
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The CA API Gateway must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.
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 -
SRG-APP-000505-NDM-000322
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SRG-APP-000506-NDM-000323
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The CA API Gateway must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur.
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 -
SRG-APP-000515-NDM-000325
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SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000339
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The CA API Gateway must employ automated mechanisms to detect the addition of unauthorized components or devices.
This requirement addresses configuration management of the network device. The network device must automatically detect the installation of unauthorized software or hardware onto the device itself....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000317
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The CA API Gateway must be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Version 6.7 or higher.
The API Gateway (Appliance version) depends on specific RHEL capabilities for the security, logging, and auditing subsystems. Installation on alternative or older RHEL versions may create vulnerabi...Rule High Severity -
The CA API Gateway must employ RADIUS + LDAPS or LDAPS to centrally manage authentication settings.
The use of authentication servers or other centralized management servers for providing centralized authentication services is required for network device management. Maintaining local administrato...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).
It is critical that when the network device is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it take action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware err...Rule Medium Severity -
In the event the authentication server is unavailable, there must be one local account of last resort.
Authentication for administrative (privileged-level) access to the device is required at all times. An account can be created on the device's local database for use in an emergency, such as when th...Rule Medium Severity -
The CA API Gateway must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to d...Rule Medium Severity -
If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the CA API Gateway must require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least 8 of the positions within the password.
If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of password compromise by increasing the window of opportunity for attempts at ...Rule Medium Severity
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