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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000016

    Group
  • The Cisco PE switch must be configured to ignore or drop all packets with any IP options.

    Packets with IP options are not fast-switched and therefore must be punted to the switch processor. Hackers who initiate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on switches commonly send large streams of p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-RTR-000113

    Group
  • The Cisco PE switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to provide preferred treatment for mission-critical applications.

    Different applications have unique requirements and toleration levels for delay, jitter, bandwidth, packet loss, and availability. To manage the multitude of applications and services, a network re...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-RTR-000114

    Group
  • The Cisco P switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to provide preferred treatment for mission-critical applications.

    Different applications have unique requirements and toleration levels for delay, jitter, bandwidth, packet loss, and availability. To manage the multitude of applications and services, a network re...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-RTR-000112

    Group
  • The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. Packet flooding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are referred to as volumetric attacks and have the objective o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000003

    Group
  • The Cisco multicast switch must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.

    If multicast traffic is forwarded beyond the intended boundary, it is possible that it can be intercepted by unauthorized or unintended personnel. Limiting where, within the network, a given multic...
    Rule Medium Severity

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