II - Mission Support Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000001-NDM-000200
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The Cisco switch must be configured to limit the number of concurrent management sessions to an organization-defined number.
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 Cisco 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-000027-NDM-000209
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The Cisco switch must be configured to automatically audit account modification.
Because the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the network device. Account management by a designated authority e...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000028-NDM-000210
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The Cisco switch must be configured to automatically audit account disabling actions.
Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account disabling actions will ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000029-NDM-000211
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The Cisco switch must be configured to automatically audit account removal actions.
Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account removal actions will su...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000038-NDM-000213
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The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the device based on 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 Cisco switch must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must lock out the user account from accessing the device for 15 minutes.
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 Cisco 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-000080-NDM-000220
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The Cisco device must be configured to audit all administrator activity.
This requirement supports non-repudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required to maintain the integrity of the configuration management process. All configuration changes to the ne...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000096-NDM-000226
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The Cisco 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 to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging...Rule Medium Severity
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