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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252

    Group
  • Forescout 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-000168-NDM-000256

    Group
  • Forescout 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

    Group
  • Forescout 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-000170-NDM-000329

    Group
  • Forescout must require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least eight of the positions within the password.

    If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of password compromise by increasing the window of opportunity for attempts at ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000179-NDM-000265

    Group
  • Forescout must use FIPS 140-2 approved algorithms for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    Unapproved mechanisms 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 compromi...
    Rule High Severity

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