Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-NET-000249
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must block malicious code.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the IDPS to delete and/or quarantine based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimizes the imp...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000249
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must quarantine and/or delete malicious code.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the network element to delete and/or quarantine based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000249
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must send an immediate (within seconds) alert to, at a minimum, the system administrator when malicious code is detected.
<VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perfo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000251
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must block outbound ICMP Destination Unreachable, Redirect, and Address Mask reply messages.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000273
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must block malicious ICMP packets by properly configuring ICMP signatures and rules.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages are used to provide feedback about problems in the network. These messages ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IDPS must prevent code injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IDPS must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must off-load log records to a centralized log server.
<VulnDiscussion>Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading ensures audi...Rule Medium Severity -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IDPS must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IDPS must detect code injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IDPS must detect code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IDPS must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000334
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SRG-NET-000335
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must provide an alert to, at a minimum, the system administrator and ISSO when any audit failure events occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perfo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000335
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures.
<VulnDiscussion>It is critical that when the IDPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the fa...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis.
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing anomaly-based attack detection.
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing signatures.
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000383
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
IDPS components, including sensors, event databases, and management consoles must integrate with a network-wide monitoring capability.
<VulnDiscussion>An integrated, network-wide intrusion detection capability increases the ability to detect and prevent sophisticated distribu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000384
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must detect network services that have not been authorized or approved by the ISSO or ISSM, at a minimum.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000385
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000385
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must generate an alert to the ISSM and ISSO, at a minimum, when unauthorized network services are detected.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation and therefore may be unreliable or...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000390
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must continuously monitor inbound communications traffic for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions.
<VulnDiscussion>If inbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions, there will...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000391
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must continuously monitor outbound communications traffic for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions.
<VulnDiscussion>If outbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored for unusual/unauthorized activities or conditions, there wil...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000392
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDSP must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSM and ISSO when intrusion detection events are detected which indicate a compromise or potential for compromise.
<VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of intrusion detection incidents that require immediate action and this d...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000392
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IDPS must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSM and ISSO when threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., IAVMs or CTOs) are detected which indicate a compromise or potential for compromise.
<VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perfo...Rule Medium Severity
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