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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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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 -
SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000310
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The Cisco switch must be configured to encrypt SNMP messages using a FIPS 140-2 approved algorithm.
Without the strong encryption that is provided by the SNMP Version 3 User-based Security Model (USM), an unauthorized user can gain access to network management information that can be used to crea...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000395-NDM-000347
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The Cisco switch must be configured to authenticate Network Time Protocol (NTP) sources using authentication that is cryptographically based.
If Network Time Protocol is not authenticated, an attacker can introduce a rogue NTP server. This rogue server can then be used to send incorrect time information to network devices, which will mak...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000411-NDM-000330
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The Cisco switch must be configured to use FIPS-validated Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) to protect the integrity of remote maintenance sessions.
Unapproved mechanisms used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified; therefore, they cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be compro...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000412-NDM-000331
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The Cisco switch must be configured to implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of remote maintenance sessions.
This requires the use of secure protocols instead of their unsecured counterparts, such as SSH instead of telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and HTTPS instead of HTTP. If unsecured protocols (lacking cryp...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000495-NDM-000318
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The Cisco switch must be configured to generate log records when administrator privileges are modified.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000499-NDM-000319
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The Cisco switch must be configured to generate log records when administrator privileges are deleted.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000503-NDM-000320
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The Cisco switch must be configured to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000504-NDM-000321
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The Cisco switch must be configured to generate log records for privileged activities.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000505-NDM-000322
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The Cisco switch must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for administrator access to the system.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000515-NDM-000325
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The Cisco switch must be configured to off-load log records onto a different system than the system being audited.
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000336
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The Cisco switch must be configured to use at least two authentication servers for the purpose of authenticating users prior to granting administrative access.
Centralized management of user accounts and authentication increases the administrative access to the switch. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat. With robu...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000340
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The Cisco switch must be configured to support organizational requirements to conduct backups of the configuration when changes occur.
System-level information includes default and customized settings and security attributes, including ACLs that relate to the network device configuration, as well as software required for the execu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000344
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The Cisco switch must be configured to obtain its public key certificates from an appropriate certificate policy through an approved service provider.
For user certificates, each organization obtains certificates from an approved, shared service provider, as required by OMB policy. For federal agencies operating a legacy public key infrastructure...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000350
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The Cisco switch must be configured to send log data to at least two central log servers for the purpose of forwarding alerts to the administrators and the information system security officer (ISSO).
The aggregation of log data kept on a syslog server can be used to detect attacks and trigger an alert to the appropriate security personnel. The stored log data can used to detect weaknesses in se...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000351
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The Cisco switch must be running an IOS release that is currently supported by Cisco Systems.
Network devices running an unsupported operating system lack current security fixes required to mitigate the risks associated with recent vulnerabilities. Running a supported release also enables o...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000435-NDM-000315
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The Cisco switch must be configured to protect against known types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing organization-defined security safeguards.
DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity. This require...Rule Medium Severity
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