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Cisco IOS Switch RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version: 2

Release: 1 Benchmark Date: 23 Apr 2021

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SV-220419r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.
SV-220422r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.
SV-220423r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.
SV-220424r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have all inactive Layer 3 interfaces disabled.
SV-220425r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.
SV-220427r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.
SV-220428r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.
SV-220429r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
SV-220430r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
SV-220431r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220432r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
SV-220433r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220434r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220435r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220436r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped at interfaces via an access control list (ACL).
SV-220437r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
SV-220438r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
SV-220439r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to disable the auxiliary port unless it is connected to a secured modem providing encryption and authentication.
SV-220440r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
SV-220441r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.
SV-220442r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
SV-220443r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
SV-220445r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DoD Instruction 8551.1.
SV-220446r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.
SV-220447r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
SV-220449r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220450r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220451r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
SV-220452r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
SV-220453r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the out-of-band management (OOBM) interface.
SV-220454r622190_ruleThe Cisco PE switch providing MPLS Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) services must be configured to authenticate targeted Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) sessions used to exchange virtual circuit (VC) information using a FIPS-approved message authentication code algorithm.
SV-220455r622190_ruleThe Cisco PE switch must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to the IP core infrastructure.
SV-220456r622190_ruleThe Cisco PE switch must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.
SV-220458r622190_ruleThe Cisco PE switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS GIG Technical Profile.
SV-220459r622190_ruleThe Cisco P switch must be configured to implement a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS GIG Technical Profile.
SV-220460r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
SV-220461r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast switch must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.
SV-220462r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast switch must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.
SV-220463r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast edge switch must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.
SV-220464r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join only multicast groups that have been approved by the organization.
SV-220465r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.
SV-220466r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to limit the number of mroute states resulting from Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Host Membership Reports.
SV-220467r622190_ruleThe Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to set the shortest-path tree (SPT) threshold to infinity to minimalize source-group (S, G) state within the multicast topology where Any Source Multicast (ASM) is deployed.
SV-220468r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.
SV-220469r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
SV-220470r622190_ruleThe Cisco switch must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.
SV-220471r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to restrict it from accepting outbound IP packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address field via egress filter or by enabling Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF).
SV-220472r622190_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
SV-220473r622190_ruleThe Cisco PE switch must be configured to ignore or drop all packets with any IP options.
SV-237749r648775_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.
SV-237751r648779_ruleThe Cisco switch must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Switch Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
SV-237755r648786_ruleThe Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
SV-237758r648791_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
SV-237761r648798_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.
SV-237763r648802_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3-255.
SV-237765r648806_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop header with invalid option type values.
SV-237771r648810_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.
SV-237773r648814_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.
SV-237775r648818_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the NSAP address option within Destination Option header.
SV-237777r648822_ruleThe Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop or Destination Option extension header with an undefined option type.