III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000319-NDM-000283
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The Cisco switch must be configured to automatically audit account enabling actions.
Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to enable...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000357-NDM-000293
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The Cisco switch must be configured to allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
To ensure that network devices have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, they need to be able to allocate audit record storage capacity. The task of allocating audit reco...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000360-NDM-000295
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The Cisco switch must be configured to generate an alert for all audit failure events.
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impe...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000373-NDM-000298
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The Cisco switch must be configured to synchronize its clock with the primary and secondary time sources 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-000395-NDM-000310
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The Cisco switch must be configured to authenticate SNMP messages using a FIPS-validated Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC).
Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the...Rule Medium Severity
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