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Riverbed SteelHead CX v8 ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-NET-000230-ALG-000113
The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) must protect the authenticity of communications sessions by configuring securing pairing trusts for SSL and secure protocols.
The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) must protect the authenticity of communications sessions by configuring securing pairing trusts for SSL and secure protocols. An XCCDF Rule
The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) must protect the authenticity of communications sessions by configuring securing pairing trusts for SSL and secure protocols.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions.
This authenticity protection control focuses on communications protection for the application session rather than for the network packet and establishes grounds for confidence at both ends of communications sessions in ongoing identities of other parties and in the validity of information transmitted. Depending on the required degree of confidentiality and integrity, web services/SOA will require the use of mutual authentication (two-way/bidirectional).</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>