Details

Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions.

This requirement focuses on communications protection for the application session rather than for the network packet and establishes grounds for confidence at both ends of communications sessions in ongoing identities of other parties and in the validity of information transmitted. Depending on the required degree of confidentiality and integrity, web services/SOA will require the use of TLS/TLS mutual authentication (two-way/bidirectional).

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure BIG-IP Core to protect the authenticity of communications sessions.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_F5_BIG-IP_11-x_Y20M10_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system F5.

References

• 800-53|SC-23
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001184
• Rule-ID|SV-215766r557356_rule
• STIG-ID|F5BI-LT-000097
• STIG-Legacy|SV-74743
• STIG-Legacy|V-60313
• Vuln-ID|V-215766

Source

• Tenable.com/audits