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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214

    Group
  • The NSX-T Manager must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 15 minutes.

    By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252

    Group
  • The NSX-T Manager 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
  • SRG-APP-000190-NDM-000267

    Group
  • The NSX-T Manager must terminate the device management session at the end of the session or after 10 minutes of inactivity.

    Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port th...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000373-NDM-000298

    Group
  • The NSX-T Manager must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks using redundant authoritative time sources.

    The loss of connectivity to a particular authoritative time source will result in the loss of time synchronization (free-run mode) and increasingly inaccurate time stamps on audit events and other ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000374-NDM-000299

    Group
  • The NSX-T Manager must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

    If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis. Time stamps generated by the application include date and time. Tim...
    Rule Medium Severity

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