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The Juniper router must be configured to use at least two authentication servers for the purpose of authenticating users prior to granting administrative access.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Centralized management of user accounts and authentication increases the administrative access to the router. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat. With robust centralized management, audit records for administrator account access to the organization's network devices can be more readily analyzed for trends and anomalies. The alternative method of defining administrator accounts on each device exposes the device configuration to remote access authentication attacks and system administrators with multiple authenticators for each network device.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-217350r916111_rule
Severity
High
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Step 1: Configure the authentication servers as shown in the following example:

[edit system]
set radius-server x.x.x.x secret xxxxxxxxx
set radius-server x.x.x.x secret xxxxxxxxx