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I - Mission Critical Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000190

    Group
  • The vCenter Server must terminate vSphere Client sessions after 15 minutes of inactivity.

    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 Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000211

    Group
  • The vCenter Server user roles must be verified.

    Users and service accounts must only be assigned privileges they require. Least privilege requires that these privileges must only be assigned if needed to reduce risk of confidentiality, availabil...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000247

    Group
  • The vCenter Server must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by enabling Network I/O Control (NIOC).

    DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity. Managing exc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000291

    Group
  • The vCenter Server must provide an immediate real-time alert to the system administrator (SA) and information system security officer (ISSO), at a minimum, on every Single Sign-On (SSO) account action.

    Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, they often attempt to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to create a new ac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000345

    Group
  • The vCenter Server must set the interval for counting failed login attempts to at least 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. Limits are imposed by locking the a...
    Rule Medium Severity

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