The ALG must protect the authenticity of communications sessions.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-204957
SRG-NET-000230-ALG-000113
SV-204957r396006_rule
Medium
Description
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 mutual authentication (two-way/bidirectional).