V-252622

Discussion

Configuring the network element to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensures compliance with federal standards and establishes a common security baseline across DoD that reflects the most restrictive security posture consistent with operational requirements. Configuration settings are the set of parameters that can be changed that affect the security posture and/or functionality of the network element. Security-related parameters are those parameters impacting the security state of the network element, including the parameters required to satisfy other security control requirements. For the network element, security-related parameters include settings for network traffic management configurations. Aspera recommends that you do not store content-protection secrets in aspera.conf.

Check Content

Verify the IBM High-Speed Transfer Endpoint does not store node content-protection secrets in plain text with the following command:

$ sudo /opt/aspera/bin/asuserdata -a | grep secret | grep transfer

transfer_encryption_content_protection_secret: "AS_NULL"

If the "transfer_encryption_content_protection_secret" is not "AS_NULL", this is a finding.