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I - Mission Critical Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000074-FW-000009

    Group
  • The NSX Tier-1 Gateway firewall must generate traffic log entries.

    Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit event content that may be neces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-FW-000030

    Group
  • The NSX Tier-1 Gateway firewall must manage excess bandwidth to limit the effects of packet flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    A firewall experiencing a DoS attack will not be able to handle production traffic load. The high usage and CPU caused by a DoS attack will also have an effect on control keep-alives and timers use...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-NET-000202-FW-000039

    Group
  • The NSX Tier-1 Gateway firewall must deny network communications traffic by default and allow network communications traffic by exception.

    To prevent malicious or accidental leakage of traffic, organizations must implement a deny-by-default security posture at the network perimeter. Such rulesets prevent many malicious exploits or acc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000333-FW-000014

    Group
  • The NSX Tier-1 Gateway firewall must be configured to send traffic log entries to a central audit server.

    Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the traffic log entries, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-FW-000040

    Group
  • The NSX Tier-1 Gateway firewall must be configured to inspect traffic at the application layer.

    Application inspection enables the firewall to control traffic based on different parameters that exist within the packets such as enforcing application-specific message and field length. Inspectio...
    Rule Medium Severity

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