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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000119-NDM-000236
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must protect audit information from unauthorized modification.
<VulnDiscussion>Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully au...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000120-NDM-000237
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.
<VulnDiscussion>Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully au...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.
<VulnDiscussion>In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000163-NDM-000251
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must disable identifiers (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity.
<VulnDiscussion>Inactive identifiers pose a risk to network devices. Attackers that are able to exploit an inactive identifier can potentiall...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000165-NDM-000253
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000166-NDM-000254
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one upper-case character be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of a complex passwords helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity,...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000167-NDM-000255
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000168-NDM-000256
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000169-NDM-000257
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If multifactor authentication is not supported and passwords must be used, the HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000173-NDM-000260
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.
<VulnDiscussion>Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000174-NDM-000261
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.
<VulnDiscussion>Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000175-NDM-000262
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor.
<VulnDiscussion>Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate n...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000177-NDM-000263
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must map the authenticated identity to the user account for PKI-based authentication.
<VulnDiscussion>Authorization for access to any network device requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure onl...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000190-NDM-000267
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must terminate all network connections associated with a device management session at the end of the session, or the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000296-NDM-000280
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Network devices must provide a logoff capability for administrator-initiated communication sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>If an administrator cannot explicitly end a device management session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an att...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000319-NDM-000283
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically audit account enabling actions.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestab...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000320-NDM-000284
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must generate an immediate alert for account enabling actions.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestab...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000328-NDM-000286
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If the HP FlexFabric Switch uses discretionary access control, the HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.
<VulnDiscussion>Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual network administrators are "owners" of objects and ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000329-NDM-000287
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If the HP FlexFabric Switch uses role-based access control, the HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce organization-defined role-based access control policies over defined subjects and objects.
<VulnDiscussion>Organizations can create specific roles based on job functions and the authorizations (i.e., privileges) to perform needed op...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000345-NDM-000290
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000346-NDM-000291
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must notify the administrator, upon successful logon (access), of the location of last logon (terminal or IP address) in addition to the date and time of the last logon (access).
<VulnDiscussion>Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their account. Providing them with information deemed impor...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000357-NDM-000293
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>In order to ensure network devices have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, they need to be able ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000359-NDM-000294
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must generate an immediate alert when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.
<VulnDiscussion>If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75%, they are unable to plan for ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000360-NDM-000295
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The HP FlexFabric Switch must generate an immediate real-time alert of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.
<VulnDiscussion>It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....Rule Medium Severity
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