I - Mission Critical Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000001-NDM-000200
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to limit the number of concurrent management sessions to 10 or an organization-defined value.
Device management includes the ability to control the number of administrators and management sessions that manage a device. Limiting the number of allowed administrators and sessions per administr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000026-NDM-000208
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to 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-000033-NDM-000212
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to assign appropriate user roles or access levels to authenticated users.
Successful identification and authentication must not automatically give an entity full access to a network device or security domain. The lack of authorization-based access control could result in...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000038-NDM-000213
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the network device 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 Juniper EX switch must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts for any given user, after which time it must block any login attempt for that user 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. Introducing a lockout period signif...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000068-NDM-000215
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to 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 network device ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws, Executi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000095-NDM-000225
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The Juniper device must be configured to 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 to compile an accurate risk assessment. Associati...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000096-NDM-000226
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to 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 Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000097-NDM-000227
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
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 software modul...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000098-NDM-000228
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to produce audit log records containing information to establish the source of events.
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 process withi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000099-NDM-000229
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to 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 Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000100-NDM-000230
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to 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 Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000119-NDM-000236
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to protect audit information from unauthorized modification.
Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit network device activity. If audit data were to become compromised, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000120-NDM-000237
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.
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 -
SRG-APP-000121-NDM-000238
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to protect audit tools from unauthorized access.
Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on au...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000133-NDM-000244
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to limit privileges to change the software resident within software libraries.
Changes to any software components of the network device can have significant effects on the overall security of the network. Therefore, only qualified and authorized individuals should be allowed ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services.
To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable unused o...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000148-NDM-000346
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured with only one local account to be used as the account of last resort in the event the authentication server is unavailable.
Authentication for administrative (privileged level) access to the device is required at all times. An account is created on the device's local database for use when the authentication server is do...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000156-NDM-000250
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.
A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to 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-000166-NDM-000254
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
Use of a complex passwords helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisti...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000167-NDM-000255
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000168-NDM-000256
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000169-NDM-000257
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one punctuation (special) character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000170-NDM-000329
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The Juniper EX switch must be configured to require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least eight of the positions within the password.
If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of password compromise by increasing the window of opportunity for attempts at ...Rule Medium Severity
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