I - Mission Critical Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000516
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The vCenter Server must use secure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAPS) when adding an LDAP identity source.
LDAP is an industry standard protocol for querying directory services such as Active Directory. This protocol can operate in clear text or over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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The vCenter Server must limit membership to the "SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators" Single Sign-On (SSO) group.
vCenter SSO integrates with PAM in the underlying Photon operating system so members of the "SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators" SSO group can log on to the operating system without needin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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The vCenter Server must limit membership to the "TrustedAdmins" Single Sign-On (SSO) group.
The vSphere "TrustedAdmins" group grants additional rights to administer the vSphere Trust Authority feature. To force accountability and nonrepudiation, the SSO group "TrustedAdmins" must be seve...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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The vCenter server configuration must be backed up on a regular basis.
vCenter server is the control plane for the vSphere infrastructure and all the workloads it hosts. As such, vCenter is usually a highly critical system in its own right. Backups of vCenter can now ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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The vCenter server must have task and event retention set to at least 30 days.
vCenter tasks and events contain valuable historical actions, useful in troubleshooting availability issues and for incident forensics. While vCenter events are sent to central log servers in real ...Rule Medium Severity
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