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Assessment Title
Rule Text
ColdFusion systems must provide clustering.
Description
Discussion Text
Clustering enables ColdFusion to distribute workloads across multiple application server instances, providing load balancing, session replication, and failover capabilities. Without clustering, ColdFusion operates as a single point of failure.
Clustering ensures service continuity by allowing traffic to be rerouted to healthy nodes in the event of a failure. It also enhances performance by distributing resource-intensive operations across multiple servers, reducing response times and increasing application scalability. This capability supports the organization's high availability and disaster recovery objectives by reducing the risk of downtime or service degradation.
Clustering supports secure session management by enabling session failover and persistence. This helps maintain user experience and security during node transitions, ensuring continuity of authenticated sessions without requiring users to reauthenticate.
ColdFusion must be capable of supporting clustering to meet enterprise availability requirements, enable horizontal scaling, and ensure that critical applications remain resilient under varying load and failure conditions.
Satisfies: SRG-APP-000225-AS-000154, SRG-APP-000435-AS-000069
Clustering ensures service continuity by allowing traffic to be rerouted to healthy nodes in the event of a failure. It also enhances performance by distributing resource-intensive operations across multiple servers, reducing response times and increasing application scalability. This capability supports the organization's high availability and disaster recovery objectives by reducing the risk of downtime or service degradation.
Clustering supports secure session management by enabling session failover and persistence. This helps maintain user experience and security during node transitions, ensuring continuity of authenticated sessions without requiring users to reauthenticate.
ColdFusion must be capable of supporting clustering to meet enterprise availability requirements, enable horizontal scaling, and ensure that critical applications remain resilient under varying load and failure conditions.
Satisfies: SRG-APP-000225-AS-000154, SRG-APP-000435-AS-000069
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