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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • The Cisco switch must manage excess bandwidth to limit the effects of packet flooding types of denial of service (DoS) attacks.

    <VulnDiscussion>Denial of service is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. Packet flooding DDoS attacks are refe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-L2S-000021

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    Group
  • The Cisco switch must have Root Guard enabled on all switch ports connecting to access layer switches.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) does not provide any means for the network administrator to securely enforce the topology of the...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-L2S-000022

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    Group
  • The Cisco switch must have BPDU Guard enabled on all user-facing or untrusted access switch ports.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a rogue switch is introduced into the topology and transmits a Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) with a lower bridge priori...
    Rule Medium Severity

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