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Version

V1 · R2

CurrentPublished Fri Jul 22 2016

iSCSI passwords are not compliant with DoD policy.

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

iSCSI passwords are not compliant with DoD policy.

Description

Discussion Text

Storage administrators will protect storage configuration data from unauthorized users by using passwords that are in accordance with the policy in DoDI 8500.2

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Objective

V-15791

Rule

SV-16730r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

ESX0090

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Work with the system administrator to determine compliance.  Request the system administrator login to the iSCSI storage device and verify that the password is 14 characters. Review the complexity requirements are met by reviewing the configuration with the system administrator. The complexity requirements are one upper case letter, one lower case letter, one special character, and one number. If the password does not meet these requirements, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Configure all iSCSI passwords according to DoD policy.

STIG check 84 of 630 in the VMware ESX 3 Server STIG checklist

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