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Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Management Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-NET-000138

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticat...
    Rule High Severity
  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to implement attack-resistant mechanisms for Voice Video Endpoint registration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Attacks against an Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager may include denial of service (DoS), replay attacks...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000148

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to uniquely identify each Voice Video Endpoint device before registration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Typi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000213

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Terminating network connections associated with communications sessions includes, for example, de-allocating associated TCP/I...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000225

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager supporting Command and Control (C2) communications must associate multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) attributes when exchanged between unified capabilities (UC) systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If MLPP attributes are not associated with the information being transmitted between systems, then access control policies an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000226

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager supporting Command and Control (C2) communications must validate the integrity of transmitted multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) attributes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If MLPP attributes are not associated with the information being transmitted between components, then access control policies...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000230

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to use FIPS-validated SHA-2 or higher to protect the authenticity of communications sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false in...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-NET-000235

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000236

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  • In the event of a system failure, Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Managers must be configured to preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure in a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000273

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to restrict Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager access outside of operational hours.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Activity under unusual conditions can indicate hostile activity. For example, what is normal activity during operational hour...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000321

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to enforce changes to privileges of Voice Video Endpoint user access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the enforcement of immediate change to privilege levels, users and devices may not provide the correct level of servi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000322

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to enforce changes to privileges of Voice Video Endpoint device access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the enforcement of immediate change to privilege levels, users and devices may not provide the correct level of servi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000333

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to provide centralized management of session (call) records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and corre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to require Voice Video Endpoints to re-register at least every three hours.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Device registration is a solution enabling an organization to manage devices. It is an additional layer of authentication ens...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000338

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to require Voice Video peers to re-register (reauthenticate) at least every hour.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Device registration is a solution enabling an organization to manage devices. It is an additional layer of authentication ens...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000343

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to authenticate each Voice Video Endpoint device before registration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Device registration is a solution enabling an organization to manage devices. It is an additional layer of authentication ens...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000343

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to authenticate each Voice Video peer (trunk) before registration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Device registration is a solution enabling an organization to manage devices. It is an additional layer of authentication ens...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000353

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to provide an indication of current participants in all calls, meetings, and conferences.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Providing an explicit indication of current participants in videoconferences helps to prevent unauthorized individuals from p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000354

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager supporting Command and Control (C2) communications must associate multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) attributes when exchanged between unified capabilities (UC) system components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If MLPP attributes are not associated with the information being transmitted between systems, then access control policies an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000355

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must only allow the use of DOD-approved PKI certificate authorities when using PKI.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Untrusted certificate authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that se...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of all types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing organizationally defined security safeguards.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A network element experiencing a DoS attack will not be able to handle the traffic load. The high CPU utilization caused by a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000363

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to limit and reserve bandwidth based on priority of the traffic type.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the implementation of safeguards which allocate network communication resources based on priority, network availabili...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000371

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted configuration files, signaling, and media streams.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without protection of the transmitted information, confidentiality and integrity may be compromised as unprotected communicat...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-NET-000395

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager, when using locally stored user accounts, must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000400

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  • For accounts using password authentication, the Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must be configured to use FIPS-validated SHA-2 or later protocol to protect the integrity of the password authentication process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000506

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  • The Enterprise Voice, Video, and Messaging Session Manager must generate session (call) records when concurrent logons from multiple endpoints occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit (session) records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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