Riverbed NetProfiler Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000001-NDM-000200
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The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to limit the number of concurrent sessions to one for the locally defined administrator account.
Device management includes the ability to control the number of administrators and management sessions that manage a device. Limiting the number of allowed administrators and sessions per administr...Rule Low Severity -
The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to 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 -
The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to retain the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner on the screen until the administrator acknowledges the usage conditions and takes explicit actions to log on for further access.
The administrator must acknowledge the banner prior to the device allowing the administrator access to the network device. This provides assurance that the administrator has seen the message and ac...Rule Medium Severity -
The Riverbed NetProfiler must configure the local account password to "require mixed case".
Use of 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 resisting...Rule Medium Severity -
The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to 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 Medium Severity -
The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to authenticate SNMP messages using a FIPS-validated Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC).
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 -
The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to use an authentication server to authenticate users prior to granting administrative access.
Centralized management of authentication settings increases the security of remote and nonlocal access methods. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat. With ro...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000026-NDM-000208
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The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to automatically generate DOD-required audit records with sufficient information to support incident reporting to a central log server.
Auditing can be disabled in the NetProfiler. The aggregation of log data kept on a syslog server can be used to detect attacks and trigger an alert to the appropriate security personnel. Upon gaini...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214
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The Riverbed NetProfiler must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 30 minutes, at a minimum.
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. in NetProfiler, the default "Number...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000068-NDM-000215
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SRG-APP-000069-NDM-000216
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The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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 Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000375-NDM-000300
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SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245
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The Riverbed NetProfiler must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services.
To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable unused o...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000148-NDM-000346
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The Riverbed NetProfiler 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
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