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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must generate traffic log entries containing information to establish the outcome of the events, such as, at a minimum, the success or failure of the application of the NSX Distributed Firewall rule.

    <VulnDiscussion>Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attac...
    Rule Info Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-FW-000030

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    Group
  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must limit the effects of packet flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A firewall experiencing a DoS attack will not be able to handle production traffic load. The high utilization and CPU caused ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000202-FW-000039

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    Group
  • The NSX Distributed Firewall must deny network communications traffic by default and allow network communications traffic by exception.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent malicious or accidental leakage of traffic, organizations must implement a deny-by-default security posture at the...
    Rule Medium Severity

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