Title

The HYCU virtual appliance must be configured to use at least two authentication servers for authenticating users prior to granting administration access. (Cat I impact)

Discussion

Centralized management of authentication settings increases the security of remote and nonlocal access methods. This control is particularly important protection against the insider threat. With robust centralized management, audit records for administrator account access to the organization's network devices can be more readily analyzed for trends and anomalies. The alternative method of defining administrator accounts on each device exposes the device configuration to remote access authentication attacks and system administrators with multiple authenticators for each network device.

Check Content

Log in to the HYCU Web UI, select the gear menu, and then choose the Identity Providers option. Verify that two authentication servers are configured. If no authentication server is configured or only a single server is configured, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Log in to the HYCU Web UI, select the gear menu, and then choose the Identity Providers option. Click "New" to add an authentication server. Configure two authentication servers on the Web UI.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-268236r1038659_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-268236

Group Title: SRG-APP-000516-NDM-000336

Expert Comments

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