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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • The Cisco ISE 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
  • SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000347

    Group
  • The Cisco ISE must authenticate Network Time Protocol (NTP) sources using authentication that is cryptographically based.

    If NTP is not authenticated, an attacker can introduce a rogue NTP server. This rogue server can then be used to send incorrect time information to network devices, which will make log timestamps i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252

    Group
  • For accounts using password authentication, the Cisco ISE must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

    Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to d...
    Rule Medium Severity

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