III - Administrative Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000025-NDM-000207
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically disable accounts after a 35-day period of account inactivity.
Since the accounts in the HP FlexFabric Switch are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the HP FlexFabric Switch. Inactive accounts could be reactivat...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000026-NDM-000208
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically audit account creation.
Upon gaining access to a network device, an attacker will often first attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is to create a new account. Notifica...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000027-NDM-000209
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically audit account modification.
Since the accounts in the HP FlexFabric Switch are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the HP FlexFabric Switch. Account management by a designated a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000028-NDM-000210
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically audit account disabling actions.
Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the HP FlexFabric Switch is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account disabling actions...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000029-NDM-000211
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must automatically audit account removal actions.
Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the HP FlexFabric Switch is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account removal actions w...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000033-NDM-000212
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce the assigned privilege level for each administrator and authorizations for access to all commands relative to the privilege level in accordance with applicable policy for the device.
To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-approved PKIs, all DoD systems must be properly configured to incorporate ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000038-NDM-000213
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the HP FlexFabric Switch based on information flow control policies.
A mechanism to detect and prevent unauthorized communication flow must be configured or provided as part of the system design. If management information flow is not enforced based on approved autho...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period.
By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000068-NDM-000215
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must 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 HP FlexFabric Switch ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws, E...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000069-NDM-000216
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must 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 banner must be acknowledged by the administrator prior to allowing the administrator access to the HP FlexFabric Switch. This provides assurance that the administrator has seen the message and ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000075-NDM-000217
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Upon successful logon, the HP FlexFabric Switch must notify the administrator of the date and time of the last logon.
Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their network device management account. Providing administrators with information regarding the date and time of their last succes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000076-NDM-000218
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Upon successful logon, the HP FlexFabric Switch must notify the administrator of the number of unsuccessful logon attempts since the last successful logon.
Administrators need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their network device management account. Providing administrators with information regarding the number of unsuccessful attempts ma...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000080-NDM-000220
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation.
This requirement supports non-repudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required in order to maintain the integrity of the configuration management process. All configuration changes ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000089-NDM-000221
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within the HP FlexFabric Switch.
Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit re...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000091-NDM-000223
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000092-NDM-000224
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must initiate session auditing upon startup.
If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabl...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000095-NDM-000225
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000096-NDM-000226
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000097-NDM-000227
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as device hardware components, device softw...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000098-NDM-000228
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must produce audit log records containing information to establish the source of events.
In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know the source of the event. The source may be a component, module, or proc...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000099-NDM-000229
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must produce audit records that contain information to establish the outcome of the event.
Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attack was successful or if changes were made to the security state of the sy...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000100-NDM-000230
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must generate audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.
Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., administrators or processes acting on behalf of administrators) associated with the events, security personnel cannot determ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000101-NDM-000231
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands.
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. Organizations consider limiting the additional audit information to only ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000116-NDM-000234
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.
In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, the HP FlexFabric Switch must support the organization's capability to correlate the aud...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000118-NDM-000235
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The HP FlexFabric Switch must protect audit information from any type of unauthorized read access.
Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit information system activity. If audit data were to become compromis...Rule Medium Severity
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