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I - Mission Critical Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi host must require TPM-based configuration encryption.

    An ESXi host's configuration consists of configuration files for each service that runs on the host. The configuration files typically reside in the /etc/ directory, but they can also reside in oth...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi host must configure the firewall to restrict access to services running on the host.

    Unrestricted access to services running on an ESXi host can expose a host to outside attacks and unauthorized access. Reduce the risk by configuring the ESXi firewall to only allow access from auth...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi host when using Host Profiles and/or Auto Deploy must use the vSphere Authentication Proxy to protect passwords when adding themselves to Active Directory.

    If a host is configured to join an Active Directory domain using Host Profiles and/or Auto Deploy, the Active Directory credentials are saved in the profile and are transmitted over the network. T...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi host must not use the default Active Directory ESX Admin group.

    When adding ESXi hosts to Active Directory, all user/group accounts assigned to the Active Directory group "ESX Admins" will have full administrative access to the host. If this group is not contr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000341-VMM-001220

    Group
  • The ESXi host must configure a persistent log location for all locally stored logs.

    ESXi can be configured to store log files on an in-memory file system. This occurs when the host's "/scratch" directory is linked to "/tmp/scratch". When this is done, only a single day's worth of ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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