III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000001-NDM-000200
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The Dell OS10 Switch must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number for each administrator account and/or administrator account type.
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-000033-NDM-000212
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The Dell OS10 Switch must be configured to assign appropriate user roles or access levels to authenticated users.
Successful identification and authentication must not automatically give an entity full access to a network device or security domain. The lack of authorization-based access control could result in...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000038-NDM-000213
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The Dell OS10 Switch must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of management information within the network device based on information flow 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 Dell OS10 Switch must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 15 minutes.
By limiting the number of failed login 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 Dell OS10 device must 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 Dell OS10 Switch must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by nonrepudiation.
This requirement supports nonrepudiation of actions taken by an administrator and is required to maintain the integrity of the configuration management process. All configuration changes to the net...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000092-NDM-000224
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The Dell OS10 Switch must initiate session auditing upon startup.
If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabl...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000131-NDM-000243
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The Dell OS10 Switch must prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization.
Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the network device. Verifying software components have been digitally signed using a certificate that is r...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245
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The Dell OS10 Switch must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services.
To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable unused o...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245
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The Dell OS10 Switch must be configured to disable the Bash shell.
To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable unused o...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000148-NDM-000346
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The Dell OS10 Switch must be configured with only one local account to be used as the account of last resort in the event the authentication server is unavailable.
Authentication for administrative (privileged level) access to the device is always required. An account can be created on the device's local database for use when the authentication server is down...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000149-NDM-000247
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The Dell OS10 Switch must be configured to use DOD PKI as multifactor authentication (MFA) for interactive logins.
MFA is when two or more factors are used to confirm the identity of an individual who is requesting access to digital information resources. Valid factors include something the individual knows (e....Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000156-NDM-000250
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The Dell OS10 Switch must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.
A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252
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The Dell OS10 Switch must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to d...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000166-NDM-000254
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The Dell OS10 Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
Use of a complex passwords helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisti...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000167-NDM-000255
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The Dell OS10 Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000168-NDM-000256
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The Dell OS10 Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000169-NDM-000257
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The Dell OS10 Switch must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resistin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000175-NDM-000262
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The Dell OS10 Switch must be configured to use DOD-approved OCSP responders or CRLs to validate certificates used for PKI-based authentication.
Once issued by a DOD certificate authority (CA), public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are typically valid for three years or shorter within the DOD. However, there are many reasons a certif...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000177-NDM-000263
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The Dell OS10 Switch, for PKI-based authentication, must be configured to map validated certificates to unique user accounts.
Without mapping the PKI certificate to a unique user account, the ability to determine the identities of individuals or the status of their nonrepudiation is considerably impacted during forensic a...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000179-NDM-000265
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The Dell OS10 Switch must use FIPS 140-2 approved algorithms for authentication to a cryptographic module.
Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not validated and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000190-NDM-000267
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The Dell OS10 Switch must terminate all network connections associated with a device management session at the end of the session, or the session must be terminated after five minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port th...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000340-NDM-000288
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The Dell OS10 Switch must prevent nonprivileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
Preventing nonprivileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or processes may gain unnecessary access to information or privileges. Privileg...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000360-NDM-000295
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The Dell OS10 Switch must generate an immediate real-time alert of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.
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-000395-NDM-000310
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The Dell OS10 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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