F5 BIG-IP TMOS NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
Use of a complex passwords helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisti...Rule Medium Severity -
The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
The F5 BIG-IP appliance must require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least eight 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 -
The F5 BIG-IP appliance must set the idle time before automatic logout to five minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port th...Rule High Severity -
The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to restrict a consistent inbound IP for the entire management session.
This security measure helps limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing anti-session hijacking security safeguards. Session hijacking, also called cookie hijacking, is the exp...Rule Medium Severity
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