Rule Title: RiOS must authenticate network management endpoint devices before establishing a local, remote, and/or network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based.

STIG ID: RICX-DM-000109

Rule ID: SV-77445r1_rule Severity: CAT II

Vuln ID: V-62955 Class: Unclass

Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices might be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the identity of other devices for connections that are of greater risk.

A local connection is any connection with a device communicating without the use of a network. A network connection is any connection with a device that communicates through a network (for example, local area or wide area network, Internet). A remote connection is any connection with a device communicating through an external network (for example, the Internet).

Because of the challenges of applying this requirement on a large scale, organizations are encouraged to only apply the requirement to those limited number (and type) of devices that truly need to support this capability. For network device management, this has been determined to be network management device addresses, SNMP authentication, and NTP authentication.

Verify that RiOS is configured to authenticate network management endpoint devices before establishing a local, remote, and/or network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based (network management portion of the requirement).

Configure RiOS to Authenticate network management endpoint devices before establishing a local, remote, and/or network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based (network management portion of the requirement).