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V-219978

CAT II (Medium)

The operating system must maintain the integrity of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.

Rule ID

SV-219978r958912_rule

STIG

Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R5

CCIs

CCI-002420

Discussion

Ensuring the integrity of transmitted information requires the operating system take feasible measures to employ transmission layer security. This requirement applies to communications across internal and external networks.

Check Content

All remote sessions must be conducted via encrypted services and ports.

Ask the operator to document all configured external ports and protocols. If any unencrypted connections are used, this is a finding.

Fix Text

All remote sessions must be conducted via SSH and IPsec. Ensure that SSH and IPsec are the only protocols used.