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Network Device Management Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The network device must retain the session lock until the administrator reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures.

    A session lock is a temporary network device or administrator-initiated action taken when the administrator stops work but does not log out of the network device. Once invoked, the session lock sh...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000026

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000027

    Group
  • The network device must automatically audit account modification.

    Since the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the network device. Account management by a designated authority ens...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000028

    Group
  • The network device must automatically audit account disabling actions.

    Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account disabling actions will ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000029

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000033

    Group
  • The network device must be configured to assign appropriate user roles or access levels to authenticated users.

    Successful identification and authentication must not automatically give an entity full access to a network device or security domain. The lack of authorization-based access control could result in...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000038

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000065

    Group
  • The network device must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 15 minutes.

    By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000068

    Group
  • The network device must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the device.

    Display of the DoD-approved use notification before granting access to the network device ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws, Executi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000069

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000080

    Group
  • The network device must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation.

    This requirement supports non-repudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required in order to maintain the integrity of the configuration management process. All configuration changes ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000091

    Group
  • The network device must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges 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-000092

    Group
  • The network device must initiate session auditing upon startup.

    If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000095

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000096

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000097

    Group
  • The network device must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

    In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as device hardware components, device softw...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000098

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000099

    Group
  • The network device must produce audit records that contain information to establish the outcome of the event.

    Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attack was successful or if changes were made to the security state of the sy...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000100

    Group
  • The network device must generate audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.

    Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., administrators or processes acting on behalf of administrators) associated with the events, security personnel cannot determ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000101

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000116

    Group
  • The network device must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.

    In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, the network device must support the organization's capability to correlate the audit log...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000119

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000120

    Group
  • The network device must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.

    Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit information system activity. If audit data were to become compromis...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000121

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000122

    Group
  • The network device must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.

    Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on au...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000123

    Group
  • The network device must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.

    Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operations on a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000131

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000133

    Group
  • The network device must limit privileges to change the software resident within software libraries.

    Changes to any software components of the network device can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be allowed ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000148

    Group
  • The network device must be configured with only one local account to be used as the account of last resort in the event the authentication server is unavailable.

    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 when the authentication server i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000153

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000156

    Group
  • The network device must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.

    A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000164

    Group

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